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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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British Army Cavalry
*[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
*[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/throughpalestine17109gut ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] [Cavalry] 1920 Images only. Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or text from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17109 Gutenberg.org]The story of the 20th Machine Gun Squadron, formed in July 1917 from sections of the Notts (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry and the South Notts Hussars.
*[https://archive.org/details/farewelltohorses0000hoyt/page/n3/mode/2up ''Farewell to the Horses : Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919''] [Cady Cyril Hoyte] edited by Robert Elverstone 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hoyte joined the Machine Gun Corps of the Warwickshire Yeomanry 28 June 1915, and arrived in Egypt December 1915, remaining in Palestine until mid 1918. [http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-yeomanry-regiments-of-1914-1918/warwickshire-yeomanry/ Warwickshire Yeomanry] (longlongtrail.co.uk) which became part of Imperial Mounted Division/Australian Mounted Division.
 
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* ''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.
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