29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Historical books online
*:[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.
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungenpurl/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 bsz40749670X ''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 or 18th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), part of [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2/2nd London) Division]]. 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 killedin December 1917, 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/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
**[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, and was part of the 60th Division.
