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*:[https://archive.org/details/temporary-crusaders/page/n7/mode/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).  
 
*:[https://archive.org/details/temporary-crusaders/page/n7/mode/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).  
 
*:[https://archive.org/details/74thyeomdiv-syriafrance/page/n11/mode/2up ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by  Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002#  access.bl.uk] British Library
 
*:[https://archive.org/details/74thyeomdiv-syriafrance/page/n11/mode/2up ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by  Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002#  access.bl.uk] British Library
**[https://archive.org/details/withbritisharmyi00lockrich ''With the British Army in the Holy Land''] by Major H O Lock, Dorsetshire Regiment 1919 Archive.org.  
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**[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.
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**[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. Part of the 60th Division.
*:[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], and in Egypt and Palestine.
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**[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], and in Egypt and Palestine, and was part of the 60th Division.
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**[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 2/15th 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.
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**[https://archive.org/details/60thdivision/page/n11/mode/2up ''History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)''] by Colonel P H Dalbiac 1927 Archive.org. Includes Palestine.
 
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.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".
 
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.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''] by  Captain S J Wilson 1920. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the regiment in Egypt.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/sevenmanchester00wilsuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Seventh Manchesters, July 1916 to March 1919''] by  Captain S J Wilson 1920. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the regiment in Egypt.
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*:[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/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://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.  
 
**[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".
 
**[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".

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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
  • 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 . Sample pages Google Books. 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[1].

External links

Watercolour: Hodson's Horse at Aleppo : encamped about a mile from the town, on the Alexandretta Road 10 November 1918 Imperial War Museums
"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.[2] ‪Al Jazeera English. YouTube videos. ‪ 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. Episode two: The Ottomans. Includes the history of the Ottoman-Germany relationship. Episode three: The New Middle East. Includes the way Britain and France divided the former Ottoman Empire between them.
  • "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

Photographs online

Maps online

1920 General Map of Cairo by Survey of Egypt. Library of Congress.
  • 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

  • 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: Vol. 1, Vol. 2:1, Vol. 2:2.
Online maps, either from the above volumes, or from an additional volume are available through the National Library of Australia's 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 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 on Archive.org or Google Books, and all on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, which also includes a later Index volume. For details see Western Front- Historical books online-Official 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[3].) Also known as the Kirke Report it is available in a reprint edition,[4] which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
  • 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”.
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.
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, [6] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com under 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.
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.
Allenby In Egypt, being Volume II of Allenby: a Study in Greatness, first published 1943. The years from 1920. Version 1; Version 2-page 8 noted to be incorrect, but photographs may be marginally better. Archive.org, both mirrors from Digital Library of India.
How Jerusalem was Won : being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by W T Massey, 1920 Archive.org
Allenby's Final Triumph by W T Massey 1920 Archive.org
Nile to Aleppo, with the Light-Horse in the Middle-East by Hector Dinning, Captain, Australian Army. 1920 Archive.org
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.
A vision of the possible; what the R.A.M.C. might become; an account of some of the medical work in Egypt together with a constructive criticism of the R.A.M.C by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Archive.org
The War Work of the Y.M.C.A. in Egypt by James W. Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Hathi Trust Digital Library
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. Chapters 1-3, missing May 1936, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12, 13, 14-15, 16, 17, 18-19, 20, missing April 1937, 22, 23, 24, 25-26, 27, 28, 29, missing Dec 1937.
Part 12 includes details of the types of camel cacolets [litters] used to transport the wounded.
"The Tale of the Tara" page 253 True Stories of the Great War, Volume II. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. Archive.org
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.

References

  1. Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number Naval & Military Press.
  2. PassTHE knowledge by Akhi Soufyan
  3. Greenwoodman. Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1 Great War Forum 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  4. Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War Naval & Military Press reprint edition.
  5. ‪Palestine: The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914–1918‬ by Edward J. Erickson 2016. Sample pages only. Google Books.
  6. Strategy and Tactics of the Egypt and Palestine Campaign by Kearsey. Naval & Military Press.
  7. michaeldr. Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli Great War Forum 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  8. Page 23 Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.
  9. "We Will Remember Them All" William Regan (68) Field Artillery Brigade. November 05, 2018. orientalvagabonds.com
  10. The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919 Naval & Military Press reprint.
  11. Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918 Naval & Military Press reprint.
  12. History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919 Naval & Military Press.
  13. Turner Donovan December 2019, Item 110.


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