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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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*[https://archive.org/details/onanzactrailbein00anzauoft ''On the Anzac Trail : being Extracts from the Diary of a New Zealand Sapper''] by 'Anzac' 1916 Archive.org. The author joined a NZ unit in London. Includes some chapters covering the stay in Egypt prior to Gallipoli.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich ''The Diary of a Yeomanry M.O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy''] by Captain O Teichman RAMC (T F) 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/insideshows01stangoog ''In the Side Shows''] by Captain Wedgewood Benn 1919 Archive.org. The author was a Member of Parliament and joined the Middlesex Yeomanry, with whom he served at Gallipoli. He subsequently became military observer attached to the Royal Naval Air Service, East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs''] 1937 Archive.org. The author worked in Egypt in from 1904, initially in the Egyptian Civil Service, subsequently as Oriental Secretary (British Foreign Office)
**[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n319/mode/2up Palestine from December 1917] page 287. The author was in Palestine in December 1917, and subsequently was appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"] [page 241] by A. J. Evans 1922 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, a POW had escaped from Germany in June 1917. In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestine his plane came down. He was captured by Arabs, along with two others, and subsequently became prisoners of the Turks.
*[https://archive.org/details/inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, 1914-1918''] by A Forder 1920 Archive.org The author was an American missionary who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem in November 1914 and jailed by the military He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811458 ''With the Turks in Palestine''] by Alexander Aaronsohn 1916 . Also an [https://archive.org/details/withturkspalestine_1301_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org
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