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*[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/palestine20thmachinegunsquadron/File1Palestine20thMachineGunSquadron/mode/2up ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] [Cavalry] by A. O. W. Kindall 1920 Archive.org. There is also a file of [https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut Images only], including a map. Project Gutenberg at 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. It is necessary to download a pdf . 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].
