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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Came.html ''With the Cameliers in Palestine''] by John Robertson, formerly of the Fourth Battalion of the Imperial Camel Brigade, T. Major New Zealand Mounted Rifles. 1938. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
*[https://archive.org/details/withbritisharmyi00lockrich ''With the British Army in the Holy Land''] by Major H O Lock Dorsetshire Regiment 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] [Cavalry] 1920 Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17109 Gutenberg.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/withjudaeansinpa00patt ''With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign''] by Lieut-Col J H Patterson 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianimperi07gulluoft ''The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914-1918''] by H S Gullett 1923 Archive.org. ''Volume VII, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918''
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/143207 ''Serbia To Kut''] by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India - full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org. HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster.
:[https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofg02mill#page/252/mode/2up "The Tale of the Tara"] page 253 ''True Stories of the Great War, Volume II''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/easternnightsand00bottiala ''Eastern Nights--and Flights; a Record of Oriental Adventure''] by Alan Bott 1920 Archive.org The author was a scout pilot in Palestine, who became, after his plane crashed in 1918, a prisoner of the Turks, eventually in Afion-Kara-Hissar in Turkey. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bott Alan Bott] Wikipedia.*[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. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/241506 pdf download], Digital Library of India.
*[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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