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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. [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.
*''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/details/arabbureaubritis0000west ''The Arab Bureau : British policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920''] by Bruce Westrate 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
====Artillery====
**[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**[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.**''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919'' edited by Major G. Goold Walker 1930 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/honourable-artillery-company-in-the-great-war-1914-1919/ ''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/title/933/military-books/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19BBYgtPhX online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. A Territorial regiment which includes A and B Artillery Batteries which sailed for Egypt in April 1915 and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the desert and in Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of *:[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunners/page/n5/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners. The Adventures of an Amateur Soldier in France, Salonica and Palestine in the Royal Field Artillery''] published 1933. Additional title '' Recording some of the exploits of the 2/22nd County of London Howitzer Battery RFA on active service.'' Archive.org*:Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and in Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n227/mode/2up "Palestine"] page 221 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. The author in Palestine from August 1917 as a Battery Commander. He was a career soldier born 1877.
====Regimental histories and accounts====
=====Indian Army=====
*''History of the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918'' London: HMSO, 1920. Includes maps. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73589 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=ior/l/mil/17/6/78 Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library version] IOR/L/MIL/17/6/78.
**The Brigade appears to have spent the War in Egypt and Palestine. The constituent regiments include the Kathiawar Signal Troop, Hyderabad Lancers, Mysore Lancers including two troops  Bhavnagar Lancers and one troop   Kashmir Lancers, Patiala Lancers and Jodhpur Lancers
*For Survey of India, and Post Office of India, see items under "Corps histories etcand accounts", further downabove.
*For further IA regimental histories, see [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[123rd Outram's Rifles]]; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force‎|The Guides (Infantry)]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]].
:For further IA regimental histories, available on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website), see [[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]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]].
===== British Army Cavalry=====
**''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_f1m1/mode/2up Volume 5 1914-1919 Egypt, Palestine and Syria''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1994 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.**[https://archive.org/details/desertmountedcor00pres ''The Desert Mounted Corps : An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1918''] by Lieut –Colonel RMP Preston 1921 Archive.org***The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]**[https://archive.org/details/r-gloucester-hussars-yeomanry/page/n11/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1898-1922. The Great Cavalry Campaign in Palestine''] by Frank Fox 1923. Archive.org
=====British Army Infantry=====
** ''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. [https://archive.org/details/historyblackwatch-vol1/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. One'' Archive.org].*:[https://archive.org/details/black-watch-vol3/page/315/mode/2up ''Volume Three'', page 315] The Fourteenth Battalion in Palestine. Archive.org.*:[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.*:[https://archive.org/details/temporary-crusaders/page/n7/mode/2up ''Temporary Crusaders''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1919. Archive.org. [http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm Transcribed version from gwpda.org.]. Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th. 1918. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and Others|Western Front - Infantry]] for another book by this author. Elsewhere it is stated he was Captain, 14th Black Watch (74th Dismounted Yeomanry Division). *:[https://archive.org/details/74thyeomdiv-syriafrance/page/n11/mode/2up ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002# access.bl.uk] British Library**[https://archive.org/details/withbritisharmyi00lockrich ''With the British Army in the Holy Land''] by Major H O Lock, Dorsetshire Regiment 1919 Archive.org.**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40749670X ''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 or 18th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), part of [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2/2nd London) Division]]. 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 in December 1917, 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/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]**[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. Part of the 60th Division.**[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], and in Egypt and Palestine, and was part of the 60th Division.**[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 2/15th 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) at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and Palestine.**[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 **[https://archive.org/details/60thdivision/page/n11/mode/2up ''History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)''] by Colonel P H Dalbiac 1927 Archive.org. Includes Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/sevenmanchester00wilsuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Seventh Manchesters, July 1916 to March 1919''] by Captain S J Wilson 1920. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the regiment in Egypt.**[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://archive.org/details/warrecord00browuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''War Record of 4th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers and Lothians and Border Horse''] edited by W Sorley Brown 1920. Archive.org. Includes chapters on Egypt and Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/39020000686868-palestinedaysan/page/n5/mode/2up ''Palestine Days and Nights; Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land''] by Captain J. G. Lockhart 1920. Archive.org. Also available [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/WSE6W37YDYI6XVTTNUR2KLP4MUODS6FE 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/details/leinsterregvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 2 The Great War and the Disbandment of the Regiment''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org. Includes Egypt and Palestine.*:[https://archive.org/details/subalternmacedonia/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Subaltern in Macedonia and Judaea, 1916-17''] by Rev. R Skilbeck Smith 1930 Archive.org. 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment.**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.19498/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914 to 1919''] by C T Atkinson 1924. Archive.org. Includes Chapter 21 on Palestine, which is also mentioned in Chapter 31. Also available as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224123824/http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/QORWK%20C%20T%20Atkinson.html transcription].**[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-1/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 1, 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel HF N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1924 Archive.org. During the Great War, the Battalion fought in Palestine, on the Western Front and in Mesopotamia. **[https://archive.org/details/royal-irish-rifles-great-war/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the First Seven Battalions, the Royal Irish Rifles (now the Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War''] by Cyril Falls 1925. Archive.org. Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and in Palestine. **[https://archive.org/details/the-devonshire-regiment-1914-1918/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918''] by C T Atkinson 1926 Archive.org. The various Battalions fought in Egypt and Palestine, on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia, Salonika, Italy and North Russia, and were in India.**[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. The campaign in Palestine was part of the war against Turkey.**[https://archive.org/details/historydcli1914/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Archive.org (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]]) Includes Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/proudheritagev3 ''Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry. Volume 3 The Regular, Militia, Volunteer, T.A., and Service Battalions H.L.I. 1882-1918''] by Lt.-Col. L B Oatts 1961 Archive.org. A transcription. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gzLWAAAAMAAJ Searchable but not viewable Google Books]. During the First World War, the various Battalions served on the [[Western Front]], at [[Gallipoli]], in Egypt, and in Palestine.**[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 Archive.org. 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.**[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. The book is an expanded version, including the re-instatement of some details such as place names, of an earlier c 1917/18 15 page publication [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-35568637/view?partId=nla.obj-35568645 ''From the Suez Canal to Gaza with the Australian Light Horse''] by Scotty's Brother, from which some details had been censored. National Library of Australia.**[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. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/28th-aif/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version], [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25341 Gutenberg.org version]. **[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.*New Zealand regimental histories and accounts**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101059987931?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''With the Anzacs in Cairo; the Tale of a Great Fight''] by Guy Thornton, Chaplain-Captain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Main Body) c 1917. The fight against prostitution. HathTrust Digital Library. *:[https://archive.org/details/anzacs_in_cairo_2003_librivox ''With the Anzacs in Cairo''] by Guy Thornton. Librivox audio. Archive.org**[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 Both formats from 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]. Both formats from 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. Both formats from Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand in the First World War 1914-1918 Collection.**[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. **[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. **[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.*South African regimental histories and accounts**[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.*[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://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.*[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. For other books by Patterson, see [[Gallipoli]], and for pre-war experiences, [[East Africa]].
:[https://archive.org/details/sevenlivesofcolo0000bria/mode/2up ''The seven lives of Colonel Patterson : how an Irish lion hunter led the Jewish Legion to victory''] by Denis Brian 2008. Includes chapters on Palestine and Sinai. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/leinsterregvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Volume 2 The Great War and the Disbandment of the Regiment''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ernest Whitton 1924 Archive.org. Includes Egypt and Palestine.
:[https://archive.org/details/subalternmacedonia/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Subaltern in Macedonia and Judaea, 1916-17''] by Rev. R Skilbeck Smith 1930 Archive.org. 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.19498/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914 to 1919''] by C T Atkinson 1924. Archive.org. Includes Chapter 21 on Palestine, which is also mentioned in Chapter 31. Also available as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224123824/http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/QORWK%20C%20T%20Atkinson.html transcription].
*[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-1/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 1, 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel HF N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1924 Archive.org. During the Great War, the Battalion fought in Palestine, on the Western Front and in Mesopotamia.
*[https://archive.org/details/royal-irish-rifles-great-war/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the First Seven Battalions, the Royal Irish Rifles (now the Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War''] by Cyril Falls 1925. Archive.org. Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and in Palestine.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-devonshire-regiment-1914-1918/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918''] by C T Atkinson 1926 Archive.org. The various Battalions fought in Egypt and Palestine, on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia, Salonika, Italy and North Russia, and were in India.
*[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. The campaign in Palestine was part of the war against Turkey.
*[https://archive.org/details/historydcli1914/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Archive.org (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]]) Includes Palestine.
*[https://archive.org/details/proudheritagev3 ''Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry. Volume 3 The Regular, Militia, Volunteer, T.A., and Service Battalions H.L.I. 1882-1918''] by Lt.-Col. L B Oatts 1961 Archive.org. A transcription. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gzLWAAAAMAAJ Searchable but not viewable Google Books]. During the First World War, the various Battalions served on the [[Western Front]], at [[Gallipoli]], in Egypt, and in Palestine.
*[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 Archive.org. The record of a Territorial division which served in [[Gallipoli]], and Egypt and Palestine.
=====Australian Army=====
*[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. The book is an expanded version, including the re-instatement of some details such as place names, of an earlier c 1917/18 15 page publication [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-35568637/view?partId=nla.obj-35568645 ''From the Suez Canal to Gaza with the Australian Light Horse''] by Scotty's Brother, from which some details had been censored. National Library of Australia.
*[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. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/28th-aif/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version], [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25341 Gutenberg.org version].
*[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.
=====New Zealand Army=====
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101059987931?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''With the Anzacs in Cairo; the Tale of a Great Fight''] by Guy Thornton, Chaplain-Captain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Main Body) c 1917. The fight against prostitution. HathTrust Digital Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/anzacs_in_cairo_2003_librivox ''With the Anzacs in Cairo''] by Guy Thornton. Librivox audio. Archive.org
*[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 Both formats from 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]. Both formats from 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. Both formats from Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand in the First World War 1914-1918 Collection.
*[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.
*[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.
*[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.
=====South African accounts=====
*[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.
====In the Air====
*''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
*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/302 In Egypt, as a Royal Flying Corps pilot] page 303, ''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org. An American, he had previously spent most of the war period in Russia as a businessman, and was in Petrograd [Saint Petersburg] when the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. He went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day.
*''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919'' [catalogued] by Major J.Everidge, R.A.F. is available as a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-no-30-squadron-raf-egypt-and-mesopotamia-1914-to-1919/ ''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> of an original Air Ministry Historical Branch typed document, probably first published as a reprint c 2004, which in turn is available as an online book on the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phiOmLuyYn Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt.
====General/Unclassified====
*[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://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.
*[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/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/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]
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