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*:For further IA regimental histories, available on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website), see [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th (Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[123rd Outram's Rifles]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]].
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Vol-vth Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.
:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n313 "My Niggers"] by Lieut. J. Railton Holden, page 286 February 1919, ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42''. Poor quality digital file. Men from the Egyptian Labour Corps.
* ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Palestine.
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves"<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>. nzsappers.org.nz
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030665890?urlappend=%3Bseq=5. ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919. Work in the field in other theatres of war. Egypt and Palestine--Water Supply''] Published by the Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham. 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. HathiTrust Digital Library. May not be accessible in USA etc. Contains a chapter "Royal Marine Artillery Battery in Egypt 1915-1916", page 414. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
*''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n95/mode/2up Egypt and Palestine] page 77. The following chapter "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919" also has some references to Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-22482 "Weather Controls over the Fighting in Mesopotamia, in Palestine, and near the Suez Canal"] by Robert De C. Ward ''Scientific Monthly'' April 1918 Archive.org
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92596 ''The Operations in Egypt and Palestine, 1914 to June, 1917: illustrating the Field Service Regulations''] by A. Kearsey, Late Lieutenant-Colonel, General Staff. Published Aldershot 1929. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open)
:[https://archive.org/details/howjerusalemwasw00mass ''How Jerusalem was Won : being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine''] by W T Massey, 1920 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/allenbysfinaltri00massrich ''Allenby's Final Triumph''] by W T Massey 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane ''British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918. From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice: Volume II The Tide of Victory''] by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' 1919 Archive.org ([https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane ''Volume I''])
*Corps histories etc
** ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.
*:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n313 "My Niggers"] by Lieut. J. Railton Holden, page 286 February 1919, ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42''. Poor quality digital file. Men from the Egyptian Labour Corps.
** ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Palestine.
**[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves"<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>. nzsappers.org.nz
*:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030665890?urlappend=%3Bseq=5. ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919. Work in the field in other theatres of war. Egypt and Palestine--Water Supply''] Published by the Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham. 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. HathiTrust Digital Library. May not be accessible in USA etc. Contains a chapter "Royal Marine Artillery Battery in Egypt 1915-1916", page 414. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
**''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n95/mode/2up Egypt and Palestine] page 77. The following chapter "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919" also has some references to Egypt.
*Intelligence
**[https://archive.org/stream/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft#page/172/mode/2up "Under Eastern Eyes"], page 172, Chapter V, ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts'' by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
**[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".
**[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
*Australian regimental histories etc
**[https://archive.org/details/australiainpales00gull ''Australia in Palestine''] H.S. Gullett, Chas. Barrett, editors ; David Barker, art editor 1919. Archive.org. With coloured sketches and many photographs. Also available [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2473740 National Library of Australia version] where colour of images differs and pages may be rotated.
**[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. 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.
**[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. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25341 Gutenberg.org version].
**[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-kiaOraCooee.html ''The Kia Ora Coo-Ee : The Magazine For The Anzacs In The Middle East, 1918''] 10 Monthly editions, from March-December 1918. Written and edited by Australian and New Zealand troops. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. For the contents, click on the title text below the cover image.[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022560388.0x000002#?si=0&ci=4&z=-0.168%2C0%2C1.3361%2C1.3026 Volume 1, March 1918] is available online for registered readers from the British Library. access.bl.uk. All may be slow to open.
*New Zealand regimental histories
**[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1MRif.html ''The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: The Story of New Zealand's Crusaders''] by A. Briscoe Moore late Lieut. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Illustrated by photographs taken with the N.Z.M.R.Brigade in the field. c 1920 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
**[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html ''The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine''] by Lieut.-Colonel. C. Guy Powles, Brigade Major N.Z.M.R. Brigade 1914-1916
, A.A. & Q M.G Anzac Mounted Division 1916-1918. From material compiled by Major A. Wilkie, W.M.R. 1922. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[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/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/withourarmyinpal00blue ''With Our Army in Palestine''] by Antony Bluett, late of “A” Battery, H A C and Egyptian Camel Transport Corps 1919 Archive.org
*[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/australiainpales00gull ''Australia in Palestine''] H.S. Gullett, Chas. Barrett, editors ; David Barker, art editor 1919. Archive.org. With coloured sketches and many photographs. Also available [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2473740 National Library of Australia version] where colour of images differs and pages may be rotated.
*[https://archive.org/details/bywaysonservicen00dinnrich ''By-ways on Service : Notes from an Australian Journal''] by Hector Dinning 1918
:[https://archive.org/details/niletoaleppowith00dinnuoft ''Nile to Aleppo, with the Light-Horse in the Middle-East''] by Hector Dinning, Captain, Australian Army. 1920 Archive.org
*[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. 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.
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/182312 ''Boundary Riders of Egypt''] by Lieut. H Bowden Fletcher 1919. The Australian Light Horse in Egypt. State Library of Victoria.
*[https://archive.org/details/cameliers00hogurich ''The Cameliers''] by Oliver Hogue 1919. Archive.org. The Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Came.html ''With the Cameliers in Palestine''] by John Robertson, formerly of the Fourth Battalion of the Imperial Camel Brigade, T. Major New Zealand Mounted Rifles. 1938. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-kiaOraCooee.html ''The Kia Ora Coo-Ee : The Magazine For The Anzacs In The Middle East, 1918''] 10 Monthly editions, from March-December 1918. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. For the contents, click on the title text below the cover image.[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022560388.0x000002#?si=0&ci=4&z=-0.168%2C0%2C1.3361%2C1.3026 Volume 1, March 1918] is available online from the British Library. access.bl.uk. All may be slow to open.
*[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.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/WSE6W37YDYI6XVTTNUR2KLP4MUODS6FE ''Palestine Days and Nights; Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land''] by Captain J. G. Lockhart 1920. 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/stream/tankinaction00browrich#page/70/mode/2up "The Palestine Detachment"] Chapter V, page 71 ''The Tank in Action'' by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] [Cavalry] 1920 Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17109 Gutenberg.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/withjudaeansinpa00patt ''With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign''] by Lieut-Col J H Patterson 1922 Archive.org
*[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 Battalion. 1922. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25341 Gutenberg.org version].
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1MRif.html ''The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: The Story of New Zealand's Crusaders''] by A. Briscoe Moore late Lieut. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Illustrated by photographs taken with the N.Z.M.R.Brigade in the field. c 1920 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html ''The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine''] by Lieut.-Colonel. C. Guy Powles, Brigade Major N.Z.M.R. Brigade 1914-1916
, A.A. & Q M.G Anzac Mounted Division 1916-1918. From material compiled by Major A. Wilkie, W.M.R. 1922. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html ''With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine''] by Major J. H. Luxford N.Z.M.G.C. 1923 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane khakicrusaderswi00coop ''British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918Khaki Crusaders. From With the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice: Volume II The Tide of VictorySouth African Artillery in Egypt and Palestine''] by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' F H Cooper 1919 Archive.org (*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3 ''Volume IThe Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919'']by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] Archive.org. Includes service in [[East Africa (First World War) |East Africa]], and Egypt and Palestine.
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volumes II-VI by H A Jones. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] 1935, [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] 1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Include Egypt and Palestine. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianflying00cutluoft ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918''] by F M Cutlack 1933 (first published 1923). ''The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918: Volume VIII'' Archive.org
*[http://www.academia.edu/13648514/BOOK_Captain_Sarkis_Torossian_From_Dardanelles_to_Palestine._Boston_1947 ''From Dardanelles to Palestine''] by Captain Sarkis Torossian. Boston,USA. 1947 academia.edu. Article: [https://www.academia.edu/13459061/Joseph_A._Kéchichian_How_the_Armenian_Genocide_Forced_a_Loyal_Ottoman_Officer_to_Espouse_the_Arab_Revolt._Contemporary_Review_of_the_Middle_East_Vol._1_No._4_2014 'How the Armenian Genocide Forced a Loyal Ottoman Officer to Espouse the Arab Revolt"] by Joseph A. Kéchichian, ''Contemporary Review of the Middle East'', Vol. 1, No. 4, 2014. academia.edu. Captain Torossian was of Armenian descent & fought at Gallipoli as an Artillery observer in the Turkish Army. After the Armenian genocide he switched sides & commanded 6.000 Arabian horsemen with the Allied army to Damascus. Article [http://www.academia.edu/14511256/Taner_Akçam_A_short_history_of_the_Torossian_debate_Journal_of_Genocide_Research_Vol._17_No._3_2015 "A short history of the Torossian debate"] by Taner Akçam ''Journal of Genocide Research'', 2015 Vol. 17, No. 3, 345–362.academia.edu. Some do not believe the account to be true. Other articles about Torossian's book may be found on [http://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanTAktar Ayhan Aktar] bilgi.academia.edu
*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofturkis00cemarich ''Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913-1919''] by Djemal Pasha, Formerly…Imperial Ottoman Naval Minister, Commander of the Fourth Army in Sinai, Palestine and Syria. 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/londonmeninpale00coldgoog greywave00gibbrich/page/86 Alexandria] page 86, ''London men in Palestine, and how they marched to JerusalemThe Grey Wave''] by Rowlands Coldicott 1919 ArchiveMajor A.orgHamilton Gibbs 1920. 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.*American title: [https://archive.org/details/khakicrusaderswi00coop gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Khaki Crusaders. With Gun Fodder; the South African Artillery in Egypt and Palestinediary of four years of war''] by F H Cooper 1919 . Both Archive.org*. He was an officer, Royal Field Artillery, 67 Artillery Brigade,<ref>[httpshttp://archivewww.orientalvagabonds.orgcom/details2018/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft11/page/n3 ''The Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915we-will-remember-them-1919''all.html "We Will Remember Them All"] by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] ArchiveWilliam Regan (68) Field Artillery Brigade. November 05, 2018.orgorientalvagabonds. Includes service com</ref> which was in Alexandria for five and a half months in 1915, prior to being sent to [[East Africa Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|East Africa‎Salonika]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), and Egypt and Palestinenovelist.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughegyptinw00briggoog ''Through Egypt in War-time''] by Martin Shaw Briggs 1918 Archive.org. The author was an architect who became an officer in a Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps, involved in duties such as inspecting camps, disinfection and watertesting. Information on many topics, including Army Camps and railways.[https://archive.org/stream/throughegyptinw00briggoog#page/n348/mode/2up Index]
*[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/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich ''The Diary of a Yeomanry M.O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy''] by Captain O Teichman RAMC (T F) 1921 Archive.org
 
*Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library. (Also see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu].)
**IOR/L/PS/11/129 P 4640/1917 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/PS/11/129 The Turkish campaigns in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Hedjaz] 1917.
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