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Historical books online
**[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/199044 ''2/4 Battalion. Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919''] Published 1920?. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open). The Battalion was in India January 1915-April 1917, where it provided many drafts for Mesopotamia, and was then in Palestine and France.
*:[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://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) in Salonika and 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".
**[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.
**[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, who also wrote ''From the Suez Canal to Gaza with the Australian Light Horse'' by Scotty's Brother (although there is a possibility this is the same publication with a different name)
**[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. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE718013/rep/REP718146/FL718147?dps_dvs=1577333778732~16 Alternative file format]. 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. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE710372/rep/REP710920/FL710921?dps_dvs=1577334198718~670 Alternative file format]. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. **''Official History of the New Zealand Engineers During the Great War 1914-1919'', published 1927. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Engi.html Version 1], [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE707936/rep/REP708241/FL708242?dps_dvs=1577334656021~35 Version 2]. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Engi-t1-front-d5.html Contents]. Includes Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand in the First World War 1914-1918 Collection.
*[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
*[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. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE712355/rep/REP712594/FL712595?dps_dvs=1577334396431~522 Alternative file format]. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[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://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
*[https://archive.org/details/romanceoflastcru00vivi/page/n5 ''The Romance of the Last Crusade : with Allenby to Jerusalem''] by Major Vivian Gilbert 1923. [https://archive.org/details/romanceoflastcru00vivi/page/66 Page 67] he arrived in June 1917 in Egypt, and remained in Palestine until 1920. He was in Machine Guns Corps (Infantry), 180th Brigade, [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] longlongtrail.co.uk *[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 . [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE709493/rep/REP709719/FL709720?dps_dvs=1577335187421~620 Alternative file format]. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/khakicrusaderswi00coop ''Khaki Crusaders. With the South African Artillery in Egypt and Palestine''] by F H Cooper 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3 ''The 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.
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