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*:[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://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-20-the-war-record-s-pdf/ ''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920''] 1925. If the download button does not display, locate in Books/Survey Of India, or [https://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=21751 Direct link] PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books version] (now full view). [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version]. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
**[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 [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. 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.
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**[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-The-Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry-1914-1919/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Transcription by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L5QFAQAAIAAJ Snippet view, Searchable] Google Books. Also Searchable at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442490 HathiTrust Digital Library] (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]])
**[https://archive.org/details/52nd-lowland-division/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] by Lt Col R.R Thompson 1923. Archive.org. Missing most/all of the maps. Also available in a reprint edition which would probably include the maps,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/fifty-second-lowland-division-1914-1918/ ''Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XuCdqIKO online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The history of a Territorial Army division that fought at [[Gallipoli]], in Egypt, Palestine and from May 1918, on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/details/history-53rddiv/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T. F.)'' ] by Major C.H Dudley -Ward 1927 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-53rd-welsh-division/ ''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://wwwArchive.fold3org.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19hrv57PT0 online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The record of a Territorial division which served in [[Gallipoli]], and Egypt and Palestine.
*Australian regimental histories and accounts
**[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.
