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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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Historical books online
*Australian regimental histories etc
**[https://archive.org/details/australiainpales00gull ''Australia in Palestine''] H.S. Gullett, Chas. Barrett, editors ; David Barker, art editor 1919. Archive.org. With coloured sketches and many photographs. Also available [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2473740 National Library of Australia version] where colour of images differs and pages may be rotated.
**[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-38594679/view?partId=nla.obj-38594687 ''The Desert Trail: With the Light Horse through Sinai to Palestine''] by Scotty’s Brother. 1919 . National Library of Australia. Also available [http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/182428 State Library of Victoria]. Author is catalogued as Charles Duguid, who was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps. The book is an expanded version, including the re-instatement of some details such as place names, who also wrote of an earlier c 1917/18 15 page publication [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-35568637/view?partId=nla.obj-35568645 ''From the Suez Canal to Gaza with the Australian Light Horse'' ] by Scotty's Brother (although there is a possibility this is the same publication with a different name), from which some details had been censored. National Library of Australia.
**[http://www.anzacs.org/5lhr/pages/5lhr2.html ''History of the Fifth Light Horse Regiment (Australian Imperial Force) from 1914 to October, 1917 ... and from October, 1917 to June, 1919''] by Brigadier-General L.C. Wilson and Captain H. Wetherell 1926 (published Sydney). Transcribed version anzacs.org. A [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-fifth-light-horse-regiment-aif/ description] says: The first part covers formation in 1914, the move to Egypt, and dismounted service at Gallipoli. The second part covers the return to the mounted role and service with the mounted Division in Sinai and Palestine.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044017981911?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''The 28th, a Record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919. Volume I. Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula''] by Colonel H.B. Collett, First C O of the [Infantry] Battalion. 1922. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25341 Gutenberg.org version].
**[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-kiaOraCooee.html ''The Kia Ora Coo-Ee : The Magazine For The Anzacs In The Middle East, 1918''] 10 Monthly editions, from March-December 1918. Written and edited by Australian and New Zealand troops. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. For the contents, click on the title text below the cover image.[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022560388.0x000002#?si=0&ci=4&z=-0.168%2C0%2C1.3361%2C1.3026 Volume 1, March 1918] is available online for registered readers from the British Library. access.bl.uk. All may be slow to open.
*New Zealand regimental histories
**[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1MRif.html ''The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: The Story of New Zealand's Crusaders''] by A. Briscoe Moore late Lieut. Auckland Mounted Rifles. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE718013/rep/REP718146/FL718147?dps_dvs=1577333778732~16 Alternative file format]. Illustrated by photographs taken with the N.Z.M.R.Brigade in the field. c 1920 Both formats from New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. **[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html ''The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine''] by Lieut.-Colonel. C. Guy Powles, Brigade Major N.Z.M.R. Brigade 1914-1916
, A.A. & Q M.G Anzac Mounted Division 1916-1918. From material compiled by Major A. Wilkie, W.M.R. 1922. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE710372/rep/REP710920/FL710921?dps_dvs=1577334198718~670 Alternative file format]. Both formats from New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. **''Official History of the New Zealand Engineers During the Great War 1914-1919'', published 1927. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Engi.html Version 1], [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE707936/rep/REP708241/FL708242?dps_dvs=1577334656021~35 Version 2]. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Engi-t1-front-d5.html Contents]. Includes Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Both formats from Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand in the First World War 1914-1918 Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. Includes Egypt, Sinai from February 1916 to August 1916. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force).
*[https://archive.org/details/withourarmyinpal00blue ''With Our Army in Palestine''] by Antony Bluett, late of “A” Battery, H A C and Egyptian Camel Transport Corps 1919 Archive.org
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