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**[https://archive.org/stream/secretservice00geor#page/198/mode/2up British Intelligence in Palestine] from page 199 and [https://archive.org/stream/secretservice00geor#page/302/mode/2up "Chapter XXIII: Allenby in Palestine and Syria in 1918"], page 303, ''Secret Service'' by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
** ''Hard Lying'' [https://archive.org/details/HardLying Archive.org version] , mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title ''“Hard Lying”: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919'' by Captain L B Weldon 1925. The author was a British Army Intelligence Officer , initially OC of a British Ship (HMS Anne previously Aenne Rickmers) carrying a French, later British seaplane squadron used for reconnaissance flights, and subsequently HMY Managem 1917-1919, involved with the supply of agents, money, weapons, etc to the Syrian coast.
**[https://archive.org/details/insideshows01stangoog ''In the Side Shows''] by Captain Wedgewood Benn 1919 Archive.org. Some editions have the title ''In the Side Shows: Observations by a Flier on Five Fronts''. 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/arabbureaubritis0000west ''The Arab Bureau : British policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920''] by Bruce Westrate 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/desertmountedcor00pres ''The Desert Mounted Corps : An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1918''] by Lieut –Colonel RMP Preston 1921 Archive.org
**The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-25958140 ''What to know in Egypt : a guide for Australasian soldiers''] by C.E.W. Bean 1915. National Library of Australia.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughegyptinw00briggoog ''Through Egypt in War-time''] by Martin Shaw Briggs 1918 Archive.org. The author was an architect who became an officer in a Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps, involved in duties such as inspecting camps, disinfection and watertesting. Information on many topics, including Army Camps and railways.[https://archive.org/stream/throughegyptinw00briggoog#page/n348/mode/2up Index]
*[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1733190 ''The Diary of an Australian Soldier (Captain K.J. Barrett)''] 1921. National Library of Australia. In Egypt, the author attended an officers' training school of instruction at Zeitoun and was commissioned into the 2nd Royal Fusiliers, which was posted to Gallipoli. Subsequently he died on the [[Western Front]] 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/withramcinegypt00serjuoft ''With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt''] by Serjeant-Major, R.A.M.C 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianarmyme00barruoft ''The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt; an illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915''] by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC and Lieut P E Deane AAMC, Quartermaster, First Australian General Hospital, Egypt 1918 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41911/41911-h/41911-h.htm Gutenberg.org version] with photographs which may be enlarged.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027845860/page/n10 ''Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers with a memoir by Harry Graham''] 1919. Includes [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027845860/page/n27 "Letters written from Egypt"], page 13. Archive.org. He enlisted in 1914 & went to Egypt as a trooper in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before returning for a commission in the Lothian & Borders Horse early in 1915.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 110.</ref> Also includes [[Western Front]].
*[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/farewelltohorses0000hoyt/page/n3/mode/2up ''Farewell to the Horses : Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919''] [Cady Cyril Hoyte] edited by Robert Elverstone 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hoyte joined the Machine Gun Corps of the Warwickshire Yeomanry 28 June 1915, and arrived in Egypt December 1915, remaining in Palestine until mid 1918. [http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-yeomanry-regiments-of-1914-1918/warwickshire-yeomanry/ Warwickshire Yeomanry] (longlongtrail.co.uk) which became part of Imperial Mounted Division/Australian Mounted Division.
*Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library. (Also see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu].)
**IOR/L/PS/11/129 P 4640/1917 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/PS/11/129 The Turkish campaigns in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Hedjaz] 1917.
