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Regimental histories and accounts
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201103211853/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1919/may/21/indian-cavalry-in-palestine Indian Cavalry In Palestine]. Hansard House of Lords 21 May 1919, an archived page.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/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.
:[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
*[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://hdl.handle.net/10092/2085 ''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. Link to a pdf download to your computer, which depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA602565/mode/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. Archive.org. 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://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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170329055452/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. now archived.
===Photographs online===
*[https://archive.org/stream/secretservice00geor#page/198/mode/2up British Intelligence in Palestine] from page 199 and [https://archive.org/stream/secretservice00geor#page/302/mode/2up "Chapter XXIII: Allenby in Palestine and Syria in 1918"], page 303, ''Secret Service'' by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
* ''Hard Lying'' [https://archive.org/details/HardLying Archive.org version] , mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title ''“Hard Lying”: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919'' by Captain L B Weldon 1925. The author was a British Army Intelligence Officer , initially OC of a British Ship (HMS Anne previously Aenne Rickmers) carrying a French, later British seaplane squadron used for reconnaissance flights, and subsequently HMY Managem 1917-1919, involved with the supply of agents, money, weapons, etc to the Syrian coast.
*[https://hdlarchive.handle.netorg/details/fightsandflights/page/289/2027mode/uc1.b3488289?urlappend=%3Bseq=333 2up "Part IV The "Ben-My-Chree" (May 1916-January 1917)"] pages 289-351 ''Fights and Flights'' by Charles Rumney Samson 1930. RNAS. HathiTrust Digital LibraryArchive. Possibly not available in USA etcorg. HMS Ben-My-Chree was a seaplane carrier, and Samson was also had in his command HMS Anne, see entry for ''Hard Lying'' immediately above. Wedgewood Benn, see next entry, was chief observer for Samson.
*[https://archive.org/details/insideshows01stangoog ''In the Side Shows''] by Captain Wedgewood Benn 1919 Archive.org. Some editions have the title ''In the Side Shows: Observations by a Flier on Five Fronts''. The author was a Member of Parliament and joined the Middlesex Yeomanry, with whom he served at Gallipoli. He subsequently became military observer attached to the Royal Naval Air Service, East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83088/page/n5/mode/2up ''Above And Beyond Palestine, An Account of the Work of the East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron 1916-1918''] by C E Hughes 1930 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/romfordbeirut/page/n9/mode/2up ''Romford to Beirut via France, Egypt and Jericho. An Outline of the War Record of "B" Battery, 271st Brigade, R.F.A. (1/2nd Essex Battery, R.F.A.) with Many Digressions''] by Edwin Blackwell and Edwin C Axe 1926 Archive.org.
*''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
*[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
*[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/throughpalestine17109gut palestine20thmachinegunsquadron/File1Palestine20thMachineGunSquadron/mode/2up ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] [Cavalry] by A. O. W. Kindall 1920 Images only. Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or text from . There is also a file of [httphttps://www.gutenbergarchive.org/ebooksdetails/17109 throughpalestine17109gut Images only], including a map. Project Gutenbergat Archive.org] . The story of the 20th Machine Gun Squadron, formed in July 1917 from sections of the Notts (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry and the South Notts Hussars.*[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. Also available [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18468 Gutenberg.org] as a transcript. The Regiment fought at [[Gallipoli]] and in France, in addition to Egypt and Palestine.*[https://archive.org/details/historysurreyyeomanry/page/n13/mode/2up ''The History and War Records of the Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regt.) 1797-1928''] by E. D. Harrison-Ainsworth 1928. Archive.org. Includes service in Egypt.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/warrecord00browuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''War Record of 4th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers and Lothians and Border Horse''] edited by W Sorley Brown 1920. Archive.org. Includes chapters on Egypt and 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://archive.org/details/1-5thessexintheeast/page/n1/mode/2up ''With the 1/5th Essex in the East''] by Lt.-Col T Gibbons 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withjudaeansinpa00patt ''With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign''] by Lieut-Col J H Patterson 1922 Archive.org. For other books by Patterson, see [[Gallipoli]], and for pre-war experiences, [[East Africa]].
:[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/1-5thbnsuffolkreg/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the 1/5th Battalion "The Suffolk Regiment"''] by Capt. A Fair and Capt. E D Wolton 1923 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/historysuffolkregimentmurphy/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927''] by Lieut.-Colonel C C R Murphy 1928 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 2 The Great War and the Disbandment of the Regiment''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org. Includes Egypt and Palestine.
:[https://archive.org/details/subalternmacedonia/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Subaltern in Macedonia and Judaea, 1916-17''] by Rev. R Skilbeck Smith 1930 Archive.org. 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.19498/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914 to 1919''] by C T Atkinson 1924. Archive.org. Includes Chapter 21 on Palestine, which is also mentioned in Chapter 31. Also available as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224123824/http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/QORWK%20C%20T%20Atkinson.html transcription].
*[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-1/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 1, 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel HF N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1924 Archive.org. During the Great War, the Battalion fought in Palestine, on the Western Front and in Mesopotamia.:[https://archive.org/details/connaughtrangersvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 3, 5th and 6th Service Battalions 1914-1919''] by Lieut.-Colonel H F N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1928 Archive.org. The Battalions served at Gallipoli, Salonika, Palestine and France.
*[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/londonscottishgtwar/page/n11/mode/2up ''The London Scottish in the Great War''] edited by Lt.-Col. J H Lindsay 1925 Archive.org. Includes the regiment in Egypt and Palestine from [https://archive.org/details/londonscottishgtwar/page/261/mode/2up page 261].
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/history-53rddiv/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T. F.)''] by Major C.H Dudley-Ward 1927 Archive.org. The record of a Territorial division which served in [[Gallipoli]], and Egypt and Palestine.
*[https://archive.org/details/the_eighth_crusade/page/136/mode/2up "Part III Personal Experiences"] page 137 ''The Eighth Crusade. Uncensored Disclosures of a British Staff Officer'' by Lt. Col. Waters Taylor 1939 Archive.org. This book was published in Germany, with no author’s name provided. The author is elsewhere referred to as Colonel B. H. Waters-Taylor, the chief of staff of Occupied Enemy Territory South (Palestine) 1919-1920.
=====Australian Army=====
*[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.
*[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://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. [https://archive.org/details/5thlighthorse/File1_5thLightHorse/ Archive.org version], also transcribed. 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.:[https://archive.org/details/desertcolumn ''The Desert Column. Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine''] by Ion L Idriess 1932. Archive.org. A transcribed version. Idriess was a member of the 5th Light Horse.
*[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://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.
*[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.  
=====New Zealand Army=====
*[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''.
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