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Historical books online
===Historical books online===
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====Official histories, despatches, background etc====
*''History of the Great War: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine'': ''From the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917'' by Lieut-General Sir George MacMunn and Captain Cyril Falls HMSO 1928. ''Volume 2 June 1917 to the End of the War: Part 1'' by Cyril B Falls 1930 ''From June 1917 to the End of the War Part II'' by Cyril Falls 1930 . Archive.org versions, mirrors from Digital Library of India: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210672 Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211976 Vol. 2:1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.6782 Vol. 2:2].
:Online maps, either from the above volumes, or from an additional volume are available through the National Library of Australia's [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home Search], using title: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine/Add limits: Map and Online. From the results select Maps, and Online. Sixteen maps have been noted.
***[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31358/supplement/6487 Sir F R Wingate despatch, Sudan] Publication date: 23 May 1919/27 May 1919; Supplement: 31358; Page: 6487.
***[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31696/supplement/15727 Sir Edward Northey despatch, Sudan] Publication date: 16 December 1919/18 December 1919; Supplement: 31696; Page:15727.
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesjune1900murruoft ''Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches, June 1916-June 1917''] [The Commander-In-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force]. Archive.org
**[http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/files.pl?idnum=2187 Maps from ''Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches''] University of Toronto. These maps are not included in the Archive.org file.
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services: General History'' by G W Macpherson [http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg03macp#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 3] includes Egypt and Palestine. 1924 HMSO. Archive.org
*''Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918 Volume I – Gallipoli, Palestine and New Guinea'' (2nd edition, 1938, first published 1930). [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069845/ Links to pdf downloads] Australian War Memorial website.
*Turkish Official Histories: [https://www.msb.gov.tr/ArsivAskeriTarih/icerik/birinci-dunya-harbi-serisi Birinci Dünya Harbi Serisi / World War I Series] from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. If required use [https://translate.google.com.au/#view=home&op=translate&sl=tr&tl=en Google Translate] for the website (not histories). Some of the Turkish Official Histories are discussed from page 49 in the article [http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/download/806/928/ "Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History"] by Edward J. Erickson ''British Journal for Military History'', Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2018, pages 44-59. A download to your computer. (Erikson has also written a book based on Turkish sources.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c7x6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''‪Palestine: The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914–1918‬''] by Edward J. Erickson 2016. Sample pages only. Google Books.</ref>). In addition to the Army histories, there is also item 15 ''Birinci Dünya Harbi, Türk Hava Harekatı C.9'' ''Air Operations'', and item 16 ''Birinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Harbi, Deniz Harekâtı C.8'' ''Naval Operations''
*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofturkis00cemarich ''Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913-1919''] by Djemal Pasha, Formerly…Imperial Ottoman Naval Minister, Commander of the Fourth Army in Sinai, Palestine and Syria. 1922 Archive.org
====General histories etc====
*[https://archive.org/details/declinefallofott0000palm/page/220 "Germany’s Ally"] Chapter 15, page 221 ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'' by Alan Palmer 1994. The political situation during the WW1 period until 1923 when the Allied occupation of Constantinople came to an end. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Indian Army regimental histories
**[https://archive.org/details/record-58th-rifles-f-f-great-war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Wikimedia Commons] - Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. The latter links may be slow to open. 58th Rifles Frontier Force was an Indian Army regiment which saw action in Egypt and Sinai in 1916, Palestine 1917-1918, and Egypt 1919.
**''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 etc", further down.
**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]].
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Vol-vth Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[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
:''Allenby In Egypt, being Volume II of Allenby: a Study in Greatness'', first published 1943. The years from 1920. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226472 Version 1]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174199 Version 2]-page 8 noted to be incorrect, but photographs may be marginally better. Archive.org, both mirrors from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/allenbyofarabial00gard/page/n7/mode/2up ''Allenby of Arabia, Lawrence's General''] by Brian Gardner 1966. First published in London in 1965 under the title ''Allenby''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesjune1900murruoft ''Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches, June 1916-June 1917''] [The Commander-In-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force]. Archive.org
**[http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/files.pl?idnum=2187 Maps from ''Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches''] University of Toronto. These maps are not included in the Archive.org file.
*[https://archive.org/details/briefrecordofadv00grearich ''A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918''] Compiled from Official Sources [by Lieut.-Colonel H Pirie-Gordon]. Second Edition 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/briefrecordofadv00grearich#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Includes “Brief Records of the various branches of the Army” Royal Engineers, Royal Army Service Corps, Ordnance, Medical, Veterinary, Egyption Labour Force etc. With many [https://archive.org/details/briefrecordofadv00grearich/page/n125/mode/2up Maps] in a separate section following page 113. Also available HathiTrust Digital Library including the [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7gq6xc4m?urlappend=%3Bseq=126 Map section] where the pages are rotatable if required.
*[https://archive.org/details/desertcampaigns00massuoft ''The Desert Campaigns''] by by W T Massey, Official Correspondent of the London Newspapers with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with drawings by James McBey. 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes [https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/296/mode/2up Part IV "Egypt, Palestine and Syria] page 297. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.
*====Corps histories etcand accounts====**[https://archive.org/details/transport-services-eef/page/n9/mode/2up ''A History of the Transport Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1917-1918''] by G E Badcock 1925 Archive.org** ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.*:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n313 "My Niggers"] by Lieut. J. Railton Holden, page 286 February 1919, ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42''. Poor quality digital file. Men from the Egyptian Labour Corps.** ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Palestine.**[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves"<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>. nzsappers.org.nz
*:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030665890?urlappend=%3Bseq=5. ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919. Work in the field in other theatres of war. Egypt and Palestine--Water Supply''] Published by the Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham. 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/reegyptpalestine/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*:[https://archive.org/details/65-re/page/n9/mode/2up ''65 R. E.. A Short Record of the Service of the 65th Field Company Royal Engineers''] by Alan Colquhoun Duff 1920. The Company served at Gallipoli, in [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|‎Macedonia]] and in Palestine. *:''Report on the work of the Seventh Field Survey Company R.E. Egypt, Sinai, Palestine & Syria. December 1916 to October 1918''. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_3ab0f671f5f14cebb2b3e2a26c324f4b.pdf Direct pdf]. Elsewhere, source of this document is given as Directorate Military Survey, Feltham, UK, and the report date is from December 1915. 2nd reference is unpublished report by W J Maule, Commanding Officer, to GSGS Map Research and Library Group, DMS Tolworth 1919.*:[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/stream/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft#page/172/mode/2up "Under Eastern Eyes"], page 172, Chapter V, ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts'' by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org**[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**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279222 ''Secret Despatches From Arabia by T E Lawrence''] Published by permission of the Foreign Office. Archive.org. Originally issued at Cairo 1916-1918.*: ''Revolt In The Desert'' by T E Lawrence 1927. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.103291 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Other files are available*:[http://www.armyupress.army.mil/Books/CSI-Press-Publications/World-War-I/#World-War-I ''The Evolution of a Revolt''] by T. E. Lawrence (Late Lieut.-Colonel General Staff, E.E.F.) first published 1939, CSI reprint. Link to a pdf download (scroll down) [US] Army University Press.*:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.261625 ''With Lawrence in Arabia''] by Lowell Thomas, with photographs by H A Chase and the author. 1924 Archive.org*:[https://archive.org/details/T.E.Lawrence ''T. E. Lawrence: In Arabia and After''] by Liddell Hart 1934 Archive.org*:For other online books relating to to T E Lawrence, including his letters, see the page [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77401/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shifting Sands''] by Major N N E Bray (Norman Napier Evelyn) 1934 Archive.org. Includes a chapter about Lawrence. Bray was originally with the 18th Bengal Lancers.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WXFGDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=oMqUy46uiO&dq=Norman%20Napier%20Evelyn%20Bray&pg=PA23 Page 23] ''Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt'' by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.</ref> Initially during WW1 Bray was working under Sir Mark Sykes, and for the Arab Bureau. C October 1917 he returned to France and his regiment. Subsequently he became the Hakim (Governor) of Kerbela, as a part of the British Administration of A. T Wilson in Mesopotamia.**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.36027/page/87/mode/2up Chapter IV, "War Time Memories" page 88] from his book ''As I Seem to Remember'' by Leonard Woolley 1962. He was an archaeologist, in Intelligence during the war, based at Port Said.***[https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1923-v50/page/n9/mode/2up "Michel the Spy"] by Leonard Woolley page 3 ''The Wide World Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative - Adventure, Travel, Customs and Sport. Volume 50 1922-1923'' Archive.org*:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolley Leonard Woolley] Wikipedia. He became a Prisoner of War in Turkey, see his further book on the page [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]].**[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
*: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=====*[https://archive.org/details/record-58th-rifles-f-f-great-war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Wikimedia Commons] - Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. The latter links may be slow to open. 58th Rifles Frontier Force was an Indian Army regiment which saw action in Egypt and Sinai in 1916, Palestine 1917-1918, and Egypt 1919.*''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 etc", further down.*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 regimental histories and accounts=====
** ''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].
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