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*''History of the Great War: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine'': ''From the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917'' by Lieut-General Sir George MacMunn and Captain Cyril Falls HMSO 1928. ''Volume 2 June 1917 to the End of the War: Part 1'' by Cyril B Falls 1930 ''From June 1917 to the End of the War Part II'' by Cyril Falls 1930 . Archive.org versions, mirrors from Digital Library of India: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210672 Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211976 Vol. 2:1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.6782 Vol. 2:2].
:Online maps, either from the above volumes, or from an additional volume are available through the National Library of Australia's [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home Search], using title: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine/Add limits: Map and Online. From the results select Maps, and Online. Sixteen maps have been noted.
:The above volumes, including maps, are also available in reprint editions (from Naval & Military Press) on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com as one digital book [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phxW7NObNx ''Military Operations Egypt and Palestine''] located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt, noting the volumes are displayed out of order.*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke (London: HMSO, 1935-1945) are available in reprint editions<ref> ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' by A.F. Becke [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-1-the-regular-british-division/ Part 1], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-2a-2b-territorial-yeomanry-divisions/ Parts 2A and 2B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-3a-3b-new-army-divisions/ Parts 3A and 3B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-4-the-army-council-ghqs-armies-and-corps-including-tank-corps/ Part 4]. [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-index/ Index] by Ray Westlake. Naval & Military Press reprint editions.</ref>, which in turn are available as one digital book of 1224 pages titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19NTJHoYiz ''Order of Battle of Divisions''] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. Includes Egypt and Palestine.*''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War'' 13 Oct 1932 includes "Appendix IV Palestine" (Details<ref>Greenwoodman. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/54329-official-inquiry-into-conduct-of-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=467922 Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1] ''Great War Forum'' 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>.) Also known as the ''Kirke Report'' it is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/report-of-the-committee-on-the-lessons-of-the-great-war/ ''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19l7X7Fb8A online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[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''. The Preface states “The story… in its bolder features covers the whole British force”.
:[https://archive.org/details/khakigownautobio0000bird/page/238 Page 238] ''Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography'' by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Late November 1914 Birdwood was appointed Corps Commander Australian and New Zealand contingent in Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-22482 "Weather Controls over the Fighting in Mesopotamia, in Palestine, and near the Suez Canal"] by Robert De C. Ward ''Scientific Monthly'' April 1918 Archive.org
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92596 ''The Operations in Egypt and Palestine, 1914 to June, 1917: illustrating the Field Service Regulations''] by A. Kearsey, Late Lieutenant-Colonel, General Staff. Published Aldershot 1929. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open)
:''A Summary of the Strategy and Tactics of the Egypt and Palestine Campaign with Details of the 1917-18 Operations Illustrating the Principles of War'' by Lieut. Col. A. Kearsey, 2nd edition revised 1932 is available in a reprint edition, <ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/strategy-and-tactics-of-the-egypt-and-palestine-campaign-with-details-of-the-1917-18-operations-illustrating-the-principles-of-war/ ''Strategy and Tactics of the Egypt and Palestine Campaign''] by Kearsey. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as on online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com under [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phAxruUavp ''Egypt And Palestine Campaign''] located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt. Originally published 1928 as ''The Events, Strategy and Tactics of the Palestine Campaign''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208330/page/n5 ''The Palestine Campaigns''] by Lieut.-General Sir Archibald P Wavell 3rd edition, 8th impression 1941, first published 1928. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A book in the series ''Campaigns and their Lessons.''
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208856 ''Allenby, a Study in Greatness; the Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.''] by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East. 1940 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre05mill/page/304 "Airmen in the Deserts of Egypt. Adventures of the Royal Flying Corps in Sinai"] told by F W Martindale. Page 304 ''True Stories of the Great War. Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits…Volume V''. 1917 Archive.org. Originally appeared in ''Wide World Magazine''.
*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/302 In Egypt, as a Royal Flying Corps pilot] page 303, ''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org. An American, he had previously spent most of the war period in Russia as a businessman, and was in Petrograd [Saint Petersburg] when the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. He went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day.
*''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919'' [catalogued] by Major J.Everidge, R.A.F. is available as a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-no-30-squadron-raf-egypt-and-mesopotamia-1914-to-1919/ ''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> of an original Air Ministry Historical Branch typed document, probably first published as a reprint c 2004, which in turn is available as an online book on the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phiOmLuyYn Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com] located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt.
*[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/greywave00gibbrich/page/86 Alexandria] page 86, ''The Grey Wave'' by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title: [https://archive.org/details/gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Gun Fodder; the diary of four years of war''] 1919. Both Archive.org. He was an officer, Royal Field Artillery, 67 Artillery Brigade,<ref>[http://www.orientalvagabonds.com/2018/11/we-will-remember-them-all.html "We Will Remember Them All"] William Regan (68) Field Artillery Brigade. November 05, 2018. orientalvagabonds.com</ref> which was in Alexandria for five and a half months in 1915, prior to being sent to [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), novelist.
