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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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Historical books online
*[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)
:''A Summary of the Strategy and Tactics of the Egypt and Palestine Campaign with Details of the 1917-18 Operations Illustrating the Principles of War'' by Lieut. Col. A. Kearsey, 2nd edition revised 1932 is available in a reprint edition, <ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/strategy-and-tactics-of-the-egypt-and-palestine-campaign-with-details-of-the-1917-18-operations-illustrating-the-principles-of-war/ ''Strategy and Tactics of the Egypt and Palestine Campaign''] by Kearsey. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as on an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com under [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phAxruUavp ''Egypt And Palestine Campaign''] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt. Originally published 1928 as ''The Events, Strategy and Tactics of the Palestine Campaign''.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.14760/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Palestine Campaigns''] by Colonel A P Wavell 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208330/page/n5 3rd edition, 8th impression 1941] Both Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A book in the series ''Campaigns and their Lessons.''
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208856 ''Allenby, a Study in Greatness; the Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.''] by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East. 1940 Archive.org.
** ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol. 1 includes 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia and Palestine. Vol. 3 includes 14th Battalion in Palestine.
*:[https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] including [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/270/mode/2up Palestine] page 271. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library
*: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''Volume Three'' transcribed edition], (OCR derived, so subject to error) including [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page329.html Fourteenth Battalion In Palestine] page 317. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_History_of_the_Black_Watch_Royal_Highl.html?id=Qkw8AAAAIAAJ Volume Three, Google Books version] Public Domain in USA c 2022.*:[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.*:[http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm ''Temporary Crusaders''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1919 . Elsewhere it is stated he was Captain, 14th Black Watch (74th Dismounted Yeomanry Division). Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th. 1918. Transcribed version from gwpda.org. Stated [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=UVA:X002264783 Google Books version] Public Domain in USA. ''Temporary Crusaders'' stated elsewhere to be a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and Others|Western Front - Infantry]] for another book by this author.
**[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]].
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