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==Regimental and Corps Histories==
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18'' by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01008145796
*''A History of the Transport Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1917-1918'' by Brevet Lieut.-Col. G.E. Badcock 1925. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01016303068 . Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008227472 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those in North America etc, or those with suitable university access, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_History_of_the_Transport_Services_of_t.html?id=72IyAQAAIAAJ Google Books] viewable USA etc.
*''Light Car Patrols, 1916-19 : War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford : a Memoir'' by Captain Claud H. Williams, 1/1st Pembroke Yeomanry, attached No. 5 Light Car Patrol ; with introduction and history of the Patrols by Russell McGuirk 2013. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01016479011 . [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Light_Car_Patrols_1916_19/IRK5BgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvk8w1sf?turn_away=true Contents] jstor.org. Those who have institutional access to jstor.org may possibly be able to access the book text online.
*''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/railway-gazette-special-great-war-transportation-number/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>.
==External links==
*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1919/may/21/indian-cavalry-in-palestine Indian Cavalry In Palestine]. Hansard 21 May 1919 (retrieved 21 June 2014). *[httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1953-07-25-31 Photograph: 9th Hodson's Horse in General Chauvel's march through Damascus, 2 October 1918]. National Army Museum (retrieved 21 June 2014).*:[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/18063 Watercolour: Hodson's Horse at Aleppo : encamped about a mile from the town, on the Alexandretta Road 10 November 1918] Imperial War Museums (retrieved 21 June 2014)
*[http://www.gatewaysfww.org.uk/sites/default/files/blog_sanitations_shells_exhibition_booklet_0.pdf ''Sanitation, Sand & Shells: The War Diary of Alfred M. Cockburn 2nd London Sanitary Company, Royal Army Medical Corps''] who served in Egypt and France. Produced for an exhibition at the Museum of Military Medicine. Diary extracts and images. gatewaysfww.org.uk
*[https://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/private-william-bowyer/ Soldiers’ Stories: [Account extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Private William Bowyer of 1/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars). Egypt’s Western Desert in 1915. nam.ac.uk
*[http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/captain-walter-bagot-chester/ Soldiers' Stories: Captain Walter Bagot-Chester] 3rd Battalion The 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles, awarded the Military Cross (MC) for his part in the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine, in November 1917. National Army Museum.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA241147 ''The Australian Light Horse: A Study of the Evolution of Tactical and Operational Maneuver''] by Edwin L Kennedy. 1991 Thesis for the degree of Master of Military Art and Science, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth Kansas. "This study analyzes the actions of the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East campaign during WWI." Archive.org
*[https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/general-allenby-and-the-campaign-of-the-egyptian-expeditionary-force-june-1917--november-1919(3b5e8d1b-8a19-46ec-aec7-ee79eaedbdf0).html ''General Allenby and the campaign of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, June 1917 - November 1919''] by Matthew Dominic Hughes. PhD Thesis King's College London (University of London) 1995. Also available through the British Library [http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309159 EThOS]
*[http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/2085/1/Thesis_fulltext.pdf ''Cavalry of the Clouds: Aspects of the Air War in the Eastern Theatre,1914-1918''] by C H. Whitley 1997. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A pdf download, which depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.dtic.milorg/details/docsDTIC_ADA602565/citationsmode/ADA602565 2up ''Armageddon’s Lost Lessons: Combined Arms Operations in Allenby’s Palestine Campaign''] by Gregory A Daddis Major, US Army. Air Command and Staff College Wright Flyer Paper No. 20, 2005. Includes link to a download, also contains an abstract. Defence Technical Information Centre dtic Archive.milorg. Alternative [https://media.defense.gov/2017/Dec/01/2001850881/-1/-1/0/WF_0020_DADDIS_ARMAGEDDONS_LOST_LESSONS.PDF pdf] media.defense.gov. Includes the role of airpower in the Middle East .
*[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d558/2ce506d4db848b24802dfa3e4b8b9d93daf7.pdf "The First Recorded Aeromedical Evacuation in the British Army - The True Story"] by Eran Dolev ''J R Army Med Corps'' 1986; 132: 34-36. pdfs.semanticscholar.org. The first British aeromedical evacuation occurred at Bir-el-Hassana, in the Sinai desert, on February 19, 1917. The patient was Lance-Corporal MacGregor, from the 2nd Battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, who had been shot by a Bedouin. He was evacuated by a B .E.2c aeroplane.
*[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/270201 Abstract and first page of the article] "Chemical Warfare and the Palestine Campaign, 1916-1918" by Yigal Sheffy ''The Journal of Military History'', Society for Military History, Volume 73, Number 3, July 2009
*[https://eefinww1.weebly.com/bibliography.html Bibliography: Egyptian Expeditionary Force in WW1] eefinww1.weebly.com
*Philately: [http://www.egyptstudycircle.org.uk/Articles/p156QC241.pdf Sinai & Gaza - Part 3: World War I, British Empire and Allies] by Edmund Hall (ESC 239) ''QC (Quarterly Circular)'' September Quarter 2012, p156-165. This is a journal/publication of the Egyptian Study Circle, UK (Egyptian Philately)
*[https://archive.org/details/forces-postal-history-society-179-1984/page/124/mode/2up "The Overland Routes to Egypt and Salonica in World War I"] by F W Daniel page 124 ''The Forces Postal History Society Newsletter'' 179 Spring 1984. Archive.org
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20200703014236/http://www.forcespostalhistorysociety.org.uk/journal_archive/journals-current---291/journal-300o.pdf "Overland Route to the East 1917-1919"] by Andrew Brooks ''Forces Postal History Society Journal'' No 300 Summer 2014, page 179, now an archived webpage. May be slow to open.
*Videos: ''World War One Through Arab Eyes'' by Tunisian writer and broadcaster Malek Triki.<ref>[https://passtheknowledge.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/documentary-world-war-one-through-arab-eyes-episode-one-the-arabs-video/ PassTHE knowledge] by Akhi Soufyan</ref> ‪Al Jazeera English. YouTube videos. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzhZkvbbHc ‪ Episode One: The Arabs]‬ . They fought as conscripts for the European colonial powers occupying Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia – and for the Ottomans on the side of Germany and the Central Powers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvNAH1YA-g Episode two: The Ottomans]. Includes the history of the Ottoman-Germany relationship. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLOzdYAMEkU Episode three: The New Middle East]. Includes the way Britain and France divided the former Ottoman Empire between them.
*[http://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/30_tamari_1.pdf "The Short Life of Private Ihsan: Jerusalem 1915"] by Salim Tamari. Includes extracts from the diary of an ordinary recruit in the Ottoman military headquarters in Jerusalem. The article is derived from ''Year of the Locust: The Great War and the Erasure of Palestine’s Ottoman Past'' by Salim Tamari 2008. palestine-studies.org
*[http://www.dlir.org/archive/orc-exhibit/items/browse/collection/11 "Maps of the Ottoman Empire"] from [http://www.dlir.org Digital Library for International Research]. The bulk of the collection contains topographical maps compiled at the British Intelligence Division War Office in 1915 derived from map and survey data collected during multiple expeditions 1839-1906. From W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem.
*[http://memory.loc.gov/master/sgp/sgpprod/sid_done_sgpwar/0264.pdf Map of Palestine, Arabia, Syria and Mesopotamia showing Lines of British Advance November 1918] Library of Congress/American Memory
*[https://cartotecadigital.icgc.cat/digital/collection/africa/id/806/ Map of Cairo (reproduced at the Survey Dept. Egypt 1914)] Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya:[https://www.loc.gov/item/2009580102/ 1920 General Map of Cairo] by Survey of Egypt. Library of Congress.*[https://www.archnet.org/collections/1569 Insurance Maps of Turkey and Istanbul] Fire insurance maps issued by Charles E. Goad, a London-based civil engineer c 1905. Includes Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt, and Constantinople and Smyrna in Turkey. archnet.org
===Historical books online===
: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 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) . Most are available in reprint editions<ref> ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' by Aon Archive.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]org or Google Books, [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 all on titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19NTJHoYiz ''Order of Battle of Divisions''] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Bookswhich also includes a later Index volume. For details see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Western Front- Historical books online-located by the Search/BritainOfficial Histories and Battles]]. Includes Egypt and Palestine.
: There were subsequent publications ''Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa'', compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and ''Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions'' compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title ''History of the Great War : based on official documents''.
*''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 Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[https://archive.org/details/declinefallofott0000palm/page/220 "Germany’s Ally"] Chapter 15, page 221 ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'' by Alan Palmer 1994. The political situation during the WW1 period until 1923 when the Allied occupation of Constantinople came to an end. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Indian Army regimental histories
**[https://commons.wikimediaarchive.org/wikidetails/File:AG_Lindrecord-58th-rifles-f-f-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_great-_1919.pdf war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Wikimedia Commons. ] - Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link] , [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. With 7 maps at the end. May The latter links may be slow to open. 58th Rifles Frontier Force was an Indian Army regiment which saw action in Egypt and Sinai in 1916, Palestine 1917-1918, and Egypt 1919.
**''History of the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918'' London: HMSO, 1920. Includes maps. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73589 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=ior/l/mil/17/6/78 Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library version] IOR/L/MIL/17/6/78.
***The Brigade appears to have spent the War in Egypt and Palestine. The constituent regiments include the Kathiawar Signal Troop, Hyderabad Lancers, Mysore Lancers including two troops  Bhavnagar Lancers and one troop   Kashmir Lancers, Patiala Lancers and Jodhpur Lancers
**For Survey of India, and Post Office of India, see items under "Corps histories etc", further down.
**For further IA regimental histories, see [[101st Grenadiers]]-Egypt and Palestine; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force‎|The Guides (Infantry)]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]].
*:For further IA regimental histories, available on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website), see [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th (Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[123rd Outram's Rifles]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]].
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Vol-vth Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[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
*[httphttps://handleviewer.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92596 ?entity=IE6196274&mode=browse ''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 an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com under [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phAxruUavp ''Egypt And Palestine Campaign''] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt. Originally published 1928 as ''The Events, Strategy and Tactics of the Palestine Campaign''.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.14760/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Palestine Campaigns''] by Colonel A P Wavell 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208330/page/n5 3rd edition, 8th impression 1941] Both Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A book in the series ''Campaigns and their Lessons.''
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesjune1900murruoft ''Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches, June 1916-June 1917''] [The Commander-In-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force]. Archive.org
**[http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/files.pl?idnum=2187 Maps from ''Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches''] University of Toronto. These maps are not included in the Archive.org file.
*[https://archive.org/details/briefrecordofadv00grearich ''A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918''] Compiled from Official Sources[by Lieut.-Colonel H Pirie-Gordon]. Second Edition 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/briefrecordofadv00grearich#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Includes “Brief Records of the various branches of the Army” Royal Engineers, Royal Army Service Corps, Ordnance, Medical, Veterinary, Egyption Labour Force etc. With many [https://archive.org/details/briefrecordofadv00grearich/page/n125/mode/2up Maps] in a separate section following page 113. Also available HathiTrust Digital Library including the [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7gq6xc4m?urlappend=%3Bseq=126 Map section] where the pages are rotatable if required.
*[https://archive.org/details/desertcampaigns00massuoft ''The Desert Campaigns''] by by W T Massey, Official Correspondent of the London Newspapers with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with drawings by James McBey. 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/howjerusalemwasw00mass ''How Jerusalem was Won : being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine''] by W T Massey, 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.
*Corps histories etc
**[https://archive.org/details/transport-services-eef/page/n9/mode/2up ''A History of the Transport Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1917-1918''] by G E Badcock 1925 Archive.org
** ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.
*:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n313 "My Niggers"] by Lieut. J. Railton Holden, page 286 February 1919, ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42''. Poor quality digital file. Men from the Egyptian Labour Corps.
**[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves"<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>. nzsappers.org.nz
*:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030665890?urlappend=%3Bseq=5. ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919. Work in the field in other theatres of war. Egypt and Palestine--Water Supply''] Published by the Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham. 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*:[https://archive.org/details/65-re/page/n9/mode/2up ''65 R. E.. A Short Record of the Service of the 65th Field Company Royal Engineers''] by Alan Colquhoun Duff 1920. The Company served at Gallipoli, in [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|‎Macedonia]] and in Palestine.
*:''Report on the work of the Seventh Field Survey Company R.E. Egypt, Sinai, Palestine & Syria. December 1916 to October 1918''. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_3ab0f671f5f14cebb2b3e2a26c324f4b.pdf Direct pdf]. Elsewhere, source of this document is given as Directorate Military Survey, Feltham, UK, and the report date is from December 1915. 2nd reference is unpublished report by W J Maule, Commanding Officer, to GSGS Map Research and Library Group, DMS Tolworth 1919.
*:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-20-the-war-record-s-pdf/ ''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920''] 1925. If the download button does not display, locate in Books/Survey Of India, or [https://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=21751 Direct link] PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?vidid=MINN:31951000606636w jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books version], Public Domain in USA(now full view). [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version]. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. HathiTrust Digital Library. May not be accessible in USA etc. Contains a chapter "Royal Marine Artillery Battery in Egypt 1915-1916", page 414. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
**''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n95/mode/2up Egypt and Palestine] page 77. The following chapter "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919" also has some references to Egypt.
*:For other online books relating to to T E Lawrence, including his letters, see the page [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77401/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shifting Sands''] by Major N N E Bray (Norman Napier Evelyn) 1934 Archive.org. Includes a chapter about Lawrence. Bray was originally with the 18th Bengal Lancers.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WXFGDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=oMqUy46uiO&dq=Norman%20Napier%20Evelyn%20Bray&pg=PA23 Page 23] ''Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt'' by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.</ref> Initially during WW1 Bray was working under Sir Mark Sykes, and for the Arab Bureau. C October 1917 he returned to France and his regiment. Subsequently he became the Hakim (Governor) of Kerbela, as a part of the British Administration of A. T Wilson in Mesopotamia.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.36027/page/87/mode/2up Chapter IV, "War Time Memories" page 88] from his book ''As I Seem to Remember'' by Leonard Woolley 1962. He was an archaeologist, in Intelligence during the war, based at Port Said.***[https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1923-v50/page/n9/mode/2up "Michel the Spy"] by Leonard Woolley page 3 ''The Wide World Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative - Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport. Volume 50 1922-1923'' Archive.org*:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolley Leonard Woolley] Wikipedia. He became a Prisoner of War in Turkey, see his further book on the page [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]].**[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. *Artillery**[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**[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.**''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919'' edited by Major G. Goold Walker 1930 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/honourable-artillery-company-in-the-great-war-1914-1919/ ''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/title/933/military-books/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19BBYgtPhX online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. A Territorial regiment which includes A and B Artillery Batteries which sailed for Egypt in April 1915 and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the desert and in Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of ''Amateur Gunners'' published 1933. Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and in Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n227/mode/2up "Palestine"] page 221 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. The author in Palestine from August 1917 as a Battery Commander. He was a career soldier born 1877.*Cavalry **''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_f1m1/mode/2up Volume 5 1914-1919 Egypt, Palestine and Syria''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1994 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]**[https://archive.org/details/r-gloucester-hussars-yeomanry/page/n11/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1898-1922. The Great Cavalry Campaign in Palestine''] by Frank Fox 1923. Archive.org*British Army Infantry regimental historiesand accounts
** ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol. 1 includes 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia and Palestine. Vol. 3 includes 14th Battalion in Palestine.
*:[https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] including [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/270/mode/2up Palestine] page 271. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library
*: [httphttps://lib.militaryarchive.coarchive.uk/libraryorg/infantry-historiesdetails/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-inblack-thewatch-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-IIIvol3/filespage/assets315/basic-htmlmode/page1.html 2up ''Volume Three'' transcribed edition, page 315], (OCR derived, so subject to error) including [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page329.html Fourteenth Battalion In in Palestine] page 317. lib.militaryarchive.coArchive.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_History_of_the_Black_Watch_Royal_Highl.html?id=Qkw8AAAAIAAJ Volume Three, Google Books version] Public Domain in USA c 2022org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/fifeforfar00ogiluoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F.& F. Yeo) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919''] [R. H. = Royal Highlanders] by Major D D Ogilvie 1921 Archive.org.
*:[httphttps://www.gwpdaarchive.org/memoirdetails/temporary-crusaders/page/n7/Crusadersmode/Sommers.htm 2up ''Temporary Crusaders''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1919. Archive.org. [http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm Transcribed version from gwpda.org.]. Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th. 1918. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and Others|Western Front - Infantry]] for another book by this author. Elsewhere it is stated he was Captain, 14th Black Watch (74th Dismounted Yeomanry Division). Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th*:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002# ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by Major C. 1918H. Transcribed version from gwpdaDudley Ward 1922 access.orgbl. uk British Library**[https://booksarchive.googleorg/details/withbritisharmyi00lockrich ''With the British Army in the Holy Land''] by Major H O Lock, Dorsetshire Regiment 1919 Archive.comorg.au**[https:/books?vid=UVA:X002264783 Google Books version] Public Domain in USA/archive. org/details/londonmeninpale00coldgoog ''Temporary CrusadersLondon men in Palestine, and how they marched to Jerusalem'' stated elsewhere to be ] by Rowlands Coldicott 1919 Archive.org. The author was, at least at one time, a book Captain in the 21st (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), with the 2nd/21st serving in Palestine, as did the 2nd/20th and 2nd/22nd. The 2/21st, was disbanded on 3 June 1918 with men drafted to other London battalions, but was reformed in 1920.*:[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up ''On Active ServiceThe Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment'' Series] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. Also see The Battalion served on the [[Western Front#Infantry ]], at [[Salonica and Othersthe Balkans (First World War)|Western Front Salonika]], and in Egypt and Palestine.**[http://digital.wlb- Infantrystuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts'']Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine. Page 127 contains a description of the action in which Lieut. Whyte was killed, at Khurbet Adaseh, just north of Jerusalem. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".**[https://archive.org/details/sevenmanchester00wilsuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Seventh Manchesters, July 1916 to March 1919''] for another book by this author Captain S J Wilson 1920. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the regiment in Egypt.
**[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/199044 ''2/4 Battalion. Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919''] Published 1920?. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open). The Battalion was in India January 1915-April 1917, where it provided many drafts for Mesopotamia, and was then in Palestine and France.
*:[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. India, Egypt/Palestine, [[Western Front]].
**[https://archive.org/details/39020000686868-palestinedaysan/page/n5/mode/2up ''Palestine Days and Nights; Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land''] by Captain J. G. Lockhart 1920. Archive.org. Also available [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/WSE6W37YDYI6XVTTNUR2KLP4MUODS6FE Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek]. John Gilbert Lockhart subsequently appears to have been a writer (biographer and sea stories). IWM catalogue states: Associated people and organisations: 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment . 1st/4th Battalion appears to be the Battalion which was in Palestine. **[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named. 1921. Gutenberg.org. From 1908 titled 15th Battalion London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles), the 2nd Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade, [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk) at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/royal-irish-rifles-great-war/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the First Seven Battalions, the Royal Irish Rifles (now the Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War''] by Cyril Falls 1925. Archive.org. Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika ]] and in Palestine.
**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100002346476.0x000002 ''The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War''] by Sir Frank Fox. [With plates and maps.] 1928. British Library Digital. Includes a chapter titled "The Holy Land".
**[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org. The campaign in Palestine was part of the war against Turkey.**[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-The-Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry-1914-1919/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Transcription by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L5QFAQAAIAAJ Snippet view, Searchable] Google Books. Also Searchable at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442490 HathiTrust Digital Library] (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]])**[https://archive.org/details/52nd-lowland-division/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] by Lt Col R.R Thompson 1923. Archive.org. Missing most/all of the maps. Also available in a reprint edition which would probably include the maps,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/fifty-second-lowland-division-1914-1918/ ''Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XuCdqIKO online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The history of a Territorial Army division that fought at [[Gallipoli]], in Egypt, Palestine and from May 1918, on the Western Front.**''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T. F.)'' by Major C.H Dudley Ward 1927 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-53rd-welsh-division/ ''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19hrv57PT0 online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The record of a Territorial division which served in [[Gallipoli]], and Egypt and Palestine.*Australian regimental histories etcand accounts
**[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, 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, 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. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/28th-aif/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version], [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25341 Gutenberg.org version]. **[http://nzetcnla.victoriagov.acau/nla.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-corpusobj-kiaOraCooee.html 25958140 ''The Kia Ora Coo-Ee What to know in Egypt : The Magazine For The Anzacs In The Middle East, 1918a guide for Australasian soldiers''] 10 Monthly editions, from March-December 1918 by C.E.W. Bean 1915. Written and edited by Australian and New Zealand troops National Library of Australia. *New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. For the contents, click on the title text below the cover image.regimental histories and accounts**[httphttps://accesshdl.blhandle.uk/item/viewer/ark:net/810552027/vdc_100022560388njp.0x000002#32101059987931?siurlappend=0&ci=4&z%3Bseq=7 ''With the Anzacs in Cairo; the Tale of a Great Fight''] by Guy Thornton, Chaplain-0Captain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Main Body) c 1917.168%2C0%2C1The fight against prostitution.3361%2C1.3026 Volume 1, March 1918] is available online for registered readers from the British HathTrust Digital Library. access*:[https://archive.blorg/details/anzacs_in_cairo_2003_librivox ''With the Anzacs in Cairo''] by Guy Thornton.ukLibrivox audio. All may be slow to openArchive.*New Zealand regimental historiesorg
**[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.
*Artillery**[httpshttp://archivenzetc.victoria.ac.orgnz/tm/detailsscholarly/leavesfromoffice00craw tei-WH1-Mach.html ''Leaves from an Officer's NotebookWith the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 ArchiveMajor J. H. Luxford N.Z.M.G.C. 1923. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.orgnz/client/viewer/IE709493/rep/REP709719/FL709720?dps_dvs=1577335187421~620 Alternative file format]. Includes EgyptNew Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Sinai from February 1916 to August 1916. The author was in a Battery Victoria University of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force)Wellington Library.**[httpshttp://archivenzetc.victoria.ac.orgnz/tm/detailsscholarly/withourarmyinpal00blue tei-WH1-Came.html ''With Our Army the Cameliers in Palestine''] by Antony BluettJohn Robertson, late formerly of “A” Batterythe Fourth Battalion of the Imperial Camel Brigade, T. Major New Zealand Mounted Rifles. H A C and Egyptian Camel Transport Corps 1919 Archive1938.org**[https://archiveviewer.waireto.victoria.ac.orgnz/client/viewer/IE712355/rep/detailsREP712594/inFL712595?dps_dvs=1577334396431~522 Alternative file format]. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.ernet**[http://nzetc.dlivictoria.2015ac.208934nz/page/n227tm/modescholarly/2up "Palestine"] page 221 tei-corpus-kiaOraCooee.html ''Clouds That FleeThe 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 Colonel Montague Cooke 1935Australian and New Zealand troops. ArchiveNew Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.org. The author in Palestine from August 1917 as a Battery CommanderFor the contents, click on the title text below the cover image. He was a career soldier born 1877.*[http://digitalaccess.wlb-stuttgartbl.deuk/sammlungenitem/sammlungslisteviewer/werksansichtark:/81055/vdc_100022560388.0x000002#?no_cachesi=10&tx_dlf%5Bid%5Dci=3454&tx_dlfz=-0.168%2C0%5Bpage2C1.3361%5D=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.*South African regimental histories and accounts**[https://archive.org/details/khakicrusaderswi00coop ''Glimpses of Khaki Crusaders. With the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three FrontsSouth African Artillery in Egypt and Palestine''] Edited by his wifeF H Cooper 1919 Archive. 1919org**[https://archive. org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3 ''The letters Story of George Herbert Whyte the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919''] by Captain Ivor D Difford [London Irish Rifles1920]Archive. org. Includes He joined a volunteer hospital unit service in France, in 1914[[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine. Page 127 contains a description of the action in which Lieut. Whyte was killed, at Khurbet Adaseh, just north of Jerusalem. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/bywaysonservicen00dinnrich ''By-ways on Service : Notes from an Australian Journal''] by Hector Dinning 1918
:[https://archive.org/details/niletoaleppowith00dinnuoft ''Nile to Aleppo, with the Light-Horse in the Middle-East''] by Hector Dinning, Captain, Australian Army. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/182312 ''Boundary Riders of Egypt''] by Lieut. H Bowden Fletcher 1919. The Australian Light Horse in Egypt. State Library of Victoria.
*[https://archive.org/details/cameliers00hogurich ''The Cameliers''] by Oliver Hogue 1919. Archive.org. The Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine.
*[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. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE712355/rep/REP712594/FL712595?dps_dvs=1577334396431~522 Alternative file format]. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[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/londonmeninpale00coldgoog ''London men in Palestine, and how they marched to Jerusalem''] by Rowlands Coldicott 1919 Archive.org. The author was, at least at one time, a Captain in the 21st(County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), with the 2nd/21st serving in Palestine, as did the 2nd/20th and 2nd/22nd. The 2/21st, was disbanded on 3 June 1918 with men drafted to other London battalions, but was reformed in 1920.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/WSE6W37YDYI6XVTTNUR2KLP4MUODS6FE ''Palestine Days and Nights; Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land''] by Captain J. G. Lockhart 1920. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. John Gilbert Lockhart subsequently appears to have been a writer (biographer and sea stories). IWM catalogue states: Associated people and organisations: 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment . 1st/4th Battalion appears to be the Battalion which was in Palestine.
*[https://archive.org/stream/tankinaction00browrich#page/70/mode/2up "The Palestine Detachment"] Chapter V, page 71 ''The Tank in Action'' by Captain D G Browne 1920 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/sevenlivesofcolo0000bria/mode/2up ''The seven lives of Colonel Patterson : how an Irish lion hunter led the Jewish Legion to victory''] by Denis Brian 2008. Includes chapters on Palestine and Sinai. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/romanceoflastcru00vivi/page/n5 ''The Romance of the Last Crusade : with Allenby to Jerusalem''] by Major Vivian Gilbert 1923. [https://archive.org/details/romanceoflastcru00vivi/page/66 Page 67] he arrived in June 1917 in Egypt, and remained in Palestine until 1920. He was in Machine Guns Corps (Infantry), 180th Brigade, [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] longlongtrail.co.uk
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html ''With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine''] by Major J. H. Luxford N.Z.M.G.C. 1923. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE709493/rep/REP709719/FL709720?dps_dvs=1577335187421~620 Alternative file format]. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/khakicrusaderswi00coop ''Khaki Crusaders. With the South African Artillery in Egypt and Palestine''] by F H Cooper 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3 ''The Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919''] by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] Archive.org. Includes service in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], and Egypt and Palestine.
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volumes II-VI by H A Jones. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] 1935, [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] 1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Include Egypt and Palestine. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianflying00cutluoft ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918''] by F M Cutlack 1933 (first published 1923). ''The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918: Volume VIII'' Archive.org
*''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 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.
*[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://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101059987931?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''With the Anzacs in Cairo; the Tale of a Great Fight''] by Guy Thornton, Chaplain-Captain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Main Body) c 1917. The fight against prostitution. HathTrust Digital Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/anzacs_in_cairo_2003_librivox ''With the Anzacs in Cairo''] by Guy Thornton. Librivox audio. Archive.org
*[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.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100091115?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The War Work of the Y.M.C.A. in Egypt''] by James W. Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/consultingsurgeo00tubbrich ''A Consulting Surgeon in the Near East''] by A H Tubby RAMC (T). 1920. Archive.org. Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.
*[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://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18699625 ''War experiences of a Territorial Medical Officer'' (ADMS, 2nd Mounted Division, Egypt, 1915-1919)] by Major General Sir Richard Luce, RAMC(T), extracted from the ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'', 1936-1937, "with photographs stuck in". Also includes an index at rear. Wellcome Library online. If you wish to read online, it is suggested you select “Full screen”, as otherwise it is difficult to read. Articles appeared from April 1936, 66 (4) to December 1937 69 (6).
:The online ''JRAMC'' extracts are easier to read, but missing three parts. Gallipoli Chapters 5-9, the remaining chapters are in respect of Egypt and Palestine. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/66/4/272.full.pdf Chapters 1-3], missing May 1936, [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/66/6/402.full.pdf 6-7], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/1/58.full.pdf 8-9], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/2/121.full.pdf 10-11], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/3/194.full.pdf 12], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/4/268.full.pdf 13], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/5/337.full.pdf 14-15], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/6/405.full.pdf 16], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/1/59.full.pdf 17], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/2/121.full.pdf 18-19], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/3/196.full.pdf 20], missing April 1937, [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/5/347.full.pdf 22], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/6/407.full.pdf 23], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/1/52.full.pdf 24], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/2/125.full.pdf 25-26], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/3/204.full.pdf 27], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/4/270.full.pdf 28], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/5/341.full.pdf 29], missing Dec 1937.
*[https://archive.org/details/lightshadeinwar00rossrich ''Light and Shade in War''] by Captain Malcolm Ross, Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces and Noel Ross of ''The Times'' (lately Lance-Corporal with the Anzacs and Lieutenant Territorial Artillery 1916. Archive.org. Includes chapters about Egypt.
*[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. Book No. 7 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61630/page/n1/mode/2up ''Egypt and the Army''] by Lieut.-Col. P G Elgood 1924 Archive.org. The Egyptian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206336/page/n239 "War and Protectorate"] Chapter IX, page 201 ''Great Britain in Egypt'' by Major E W Polson Newman 1928 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16637/page/n189/mode/2up "Chapter 13, Cairo"] page 159 ''Egyptian Service 1902-1946'' by Sir Thomas Russell Pasha 1949 Archive.org. In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Commandant of the Cairo Police, and in March 1918 became Commandant.
*[https://archive.org/details/britisharmycrisi0000jeff/page/110/mode/2up "The Defence of Suez"] Chapter 7 Page 110 ''The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22'' by Keith Jeffery 1984. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://www.academia.edu/13648514/BOOK_Captain_Sarkis_Torossian_From_Dardanelles_to_Palestine._Boston_1947 ''From Dardanelles to Palestine''] by Captain Sarkis Torossian. Boston,USA. 1947 academia.edu. Article: [https://www.academia.edu/13459061/Joseph_A._Kéchichian_How_the_Armenian_Genocide_Forced_a_Loyal_Ottoman_Officer_to_Espouse_the_Arab_Revolt._Contemporary_Review_of_the_Middle_East_Vol._1_No._4_2014 'How the Armenian Genocide Forced a Loyal Ottoman Officer to Espouse the Arab Revolt"] by Joseph A. Kéchichian, ''Contemporary Review of the Middle East'', Vol. 1, No. 4, 2014. academia.edu. Captain Torossian was of Armenian descent & fought at Gallipoli as an Artillery observer in the Turkish Army. After the Armenian genocide he switched sides & commanded 6.000 Arabian horsemen with the Allied army to Damascus. Article [http://www.academia.edu/14511256/Taner_Akçam_A_short_history_of_the_Torossian_debate_Journal_of_Genocide_Research_Vol._17_No._3_2015 "A short history of the Torossian debate"] by Taner Akçam ''Journal of Genocide Research'', 2015 Vol. 17, No. 3, 345–362.academia.edu. Some do not believe the account to be true. Other articles about Torossian's book may be found on [http://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanTAktar Ayhan Aktar] bilgi.academia.edu
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002# ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 access.bl.uk British Library
*[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].)
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers.
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. Archive.org. Born 1878, he was a veterinary surgeon who had researched camel diseases. During WW1 he worked for a time purchasing camels for the Army. In the late 1920s Leese became a British Fascist anti Jewish politician. His camel books include
**[httphttps://krishikosharchive.egranth.ac.inorg/details/tips-camels/page/handlen9/1mode/224542up '' "Tips" on camels Camels for veterinary surgeons Veterinary Surgeons on active serviceActive Service''] by A.S. Leese 1918. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: Indian Agricultural Research InstituteArchive.org.
*[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
*[https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0001 ''Mit Jildirim ins Heilige Land : Erinnerungen und Glossen zum Palästina-Feldzug 1917-1918''] by Josef Drexler 1919. German language. With [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0002 Map 1] and [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0243 Map 2]. staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Google Translate title: ''With Jildirim to the Holy Land: Memories and glosses on the Palestine campaign 1917-1918'' [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresgruppe_Yıldırım Heeresgruppe Yıldırım] was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army.
:[https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-2061965 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges Band 4. Jildirim''] by Dr Steuber 1925. German language. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria. With photographs throughout, and three maps at the back of the book.
*[http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/diglit/FoXX96_qt ''Hundert deutsche Fliegerbilder aus Palästina''] by Gustaf Dalman 1925. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. German language. "Hundred aerial photographs from Palestine". Some of the text is “on its side” so may be difficult to view on a fixed screen.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2845189 British Administration Palestine Government Gazettes from 1919] Yale University Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/palestinedisturb00grearich/page/n1 ''Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with correspondence relating thereto''] Presented to Parliament October 1921. HMSO 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofpalest00lukeuoft ''The Handbook of Palestine''] edited by Harry Charles Luke and Edward Keith-Roach. Issued under the Authority of the [British] Government of Palestine 1922 Archive.org
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