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*''Turkish Days and Ways'' by James Brown MD 1940. The author was a Scot who had lived in Australia most of his life who qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh during WW1 and became a Lieutenant RAMC. He was in a Field Ambulance, serving with a Brigade of Yeomanry at the time of capture at Katia near Romani, twenty three miles from the Suez Canal, c April 1916. He was a POW at Afyon Karahisar. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2232939 Catalogue details], [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2819290002 digital file] nla.gov.au.
*Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC (Wellcome Library catalogue ref RAMC/248):''Diary re service in Egypt as ADMS Alexandria District'' [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20093913 1917-1918] RAMC/248/2/2/1; [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20093901 1918] RAMC/248/2/2/2. Wellcome Library online. See comments in the item above about using the Wellcome Library online reader.
*"An Anti-Malaria Campaign in Palestine. An Account of the Preventive Measures undertaken in the 21st Corps area in 1918" by Colonel E P Sewell and Brevet Major A S M Macgregor ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 34 1920'' [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/n101/mode/2up Part 1, pages 85-100], [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/203/mode/2up Part 2, pages 204-218] Photographs [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/n207/mode/2up Photographs] digital page 208. Archive.org. Alternative [https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/jramc/34/2/85.full.pdf file for Part 1] with Map and better photographs, [https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/jramc/34/3/204.full.pdf Part 2] militaryhealth.bmj.com
*[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''.
