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**[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://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3488289?urlappend=%3Bseq=333 "Part IV The "Ben-My-Chree" (May 1916-January 1917)"] pages 289-351 ''Fights and Flights'' by Charles Rumney Samson 1930. RNAS. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not available in USA etc. 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
