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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].
*[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.
====Medical====
*[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]
*[https://archive.org/details/withramcinegypt00serjuoft ''With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt''] by Serjeant-Major, R.A.M.C 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianarmyme00barruoft ''The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt; an illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915''] by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC and Lieut P E Deane AAMC, Quartermaster, First Australian General Hospital, Egypt 1918 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41911/41911-h/41911-h.htm Gutenberg.org version] with photographs which may be enlarged.
:[https://archive.org/details/visionofpossible00barr ''A vision of the possible; what the R.A.M.C. might become; an account of some of the medical work in Egypt together with a constructive criticism of the R.A.M.C''] by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Archive.org
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100091115?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The War Work of the Y.M.C.A. in Egypt''] by James W. Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/consultingsurgeo00tubbrich ''A Consulting Surgeon in the Near East''] by A H Tubby RAMC (T). 1920. Archive.org. Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich ''The Diary of a Yeomanry M.O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy''] by Captain O Teichman RAMC (T F) 1921 Archive.org
*[https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18699625 ''War experiences of a Territorial Medical Officer'' (ADMS, 2nd Mounted Division, Egypt, 1915-1919)] by Major General Sir Richard Luce, RAMC(T), extracted from the ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'', 1936-1937, "with photographs stuck in". Also includes an index at rear. Wellcome Library online. If you wish to read online, it is suggested you select “Full screen”, as otherwise it is difficult to read. Articles appeared from April 1936, 66 (4) to December 1937 69 (6).
:The online ''JRAMC'' extracts are easier to read, but missing three parts. Gallipoli Chapters 5-9, the remaining chapters are in respect of Egypt and Palestine. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/66/4/272.full.pdf Chapters 1-3], missing May 1936, [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/66/6/402.full.pdf 6-7], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/1/58.full.pdf 8-9], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/2/121.full.pdf 10-11], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/3/194.full.pdf 12], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/4/268.full.pdf 13], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/5/337.full.pdf 14-15], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/6/405.full.pdf 16], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/1/59.full.pdf 17], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/2/121.full.pdf 18-19], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/3/196.full.pdf 20], missing April 1937, [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/5/347.full.pdf 22], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/6/407.full.pdf 23], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/1/52.full.pdf 24], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/2/125.full.pdf 25-26], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/3/204.full.pdf 27], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/4/270.full.pdf 28], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/5/341.full.pdf 29], missing Dec 1937.
:: Part 12 includes details of the types of camel cacolets [litters] used to transport the wounded.
*Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC (Wellcome Library catalogue ref RAMC/248):''Diary re service in Egypt as ADMS Alexandria District'' [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20093913 1917-1918] RAMC/248/2/2/1; [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20093901 1918] RAMC/248/2/2/2. Wellcome Library online. See comments in the item above about using the Wellcome Library online reader.
*"An Anti-Malaria Campaign in Palestine. An Account of the Preventive Measures undertaken in the 21st Corps area in 1918" by Colonel E P Sewell and Brevet Major A S M Macgregor ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 34 1920'' [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/n101/mode/2up Part 1, pages 85-100], [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/203/mode/2up Part 2, pages 204-218] Photographs [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/n207/mode/2up Photographs] digital page 208. Archive.org. Alternative [https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/jramc/34/2/85.full.pdf file for Part 1] with Map and better photographs, [https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/jramc/34/3/204.full.pdf Part 2] militaryhealth.bmj.com
====Corps histories and 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
*[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.
*[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
====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
**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
*[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 Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17109 Gutenberg.org]
*[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.
=====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://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 Armyand accounts=====*[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/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.
*[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1733190 ''The Diary of an Australian Soldier (Captain K.J. Barrett)''] 1921. National Library of Australia. In Egypt, the author attended an officers' training school of instruction at Zeitoun and was commissioned into the 2nd Royal Fusiliers, which was posted to Gallipoli. Subsequently he died on the [[Western Front]] 1917.
*[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.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers.
=====New Zealand Army=====
*[https://archive.org/details/onanzactrailbein00anzauoft ''On the Anzac Trail : being Extracts from the Diary of a New Zealand Sapper''] by 'Anzac' 1916 Archive.org. The author joined a NZ unit in London. Includes some chapters covering the stay in Egypt prior to Gallipoli. Book No. 7 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''.
*[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
*[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.
=====Turkish Army=====
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811458 ''With the Turks in Palestine''] by Alexander Aaronsohn 1916. Also an [https://archive.org/details/withturkspalestine_1301_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org
*[http://www.academia.edu/13648514/BOOK_Captain_Sarkis_Torossian_From_Dardanelles_to_Palestine._Boston_1947 ''From Dardanelles to Palestine''] by Captain Sarkis Torossian. Boston,USA. 1947 academia.edu. Article: [https://www.academia.edu/13459061/Joseph_A._Kéchichian_How_the_Armenian_Genocide_Forced_a_Loyal_Ottoman_Officer_to_Espouse_the_Arab_Revolt._Contemporary_Review_of_the_Middle_East_Vol._1_No._4_2014 'How the Armenian Genocide Forced a Loyal Ottoman Officer to Espouse the Arab Revolt"] by Joseph A. Kéchichian, ''Contemporary Review of the Middle East'', Vol. 1, No. 4, 2014. academia.edu. Captain Torossian was of Armenian descent & fought at Gallipoli as an Artillery observer in the Turkish Army. After the Armenian genocide he switched sides & commanded 6.000 Arabian horsemen with the Allied army to Damascus. Article [http://www.academia.edu/14511256/Taner_Akçam_A_short_history_of_the_Torossian_debate_Journal_of_Genocide_Research_Vol._17_No._3_2015 "A short history of the Torossian debate"] by Taner Akçam ''Journal of Genocide Research'', 2015 Vol. 17, No. 3, 345–362.academia.edu. Some do not believe the account to be true. Other articles about Torossian's book may be found on [http://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanTAktar Ayhan Aktar] bilgi.academia.edu
 
====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/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=Prisoners of War=====*[https://archive.org/details/bywaysonservicen00dinnrich prisonersofredde00gwat ''By-ways on Service : Notes from an Australian Journal''] by Hector Dinning 1918:[https://archive.org/details/niletoaleppowith00dinnuoft ''Nile to AleppoPrisoners of the red desert, with being a full and true history of the Light-Horse in men of the Middle-East"Tara"''] by Hector Dinning, Captain, Australian Army. 1920 Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/182312 ''Boundary Riders of HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt''] by Lieut. H Bowden Fletcher 1919. The Australian Light Horse in Egypt. State Library of Victoria.*[https://archive1915.org/details/cameliers00hogurich ''The surviving crew Cameliers''] by Oliver Hogue 1919. Archive.org. The Imperial Camel Corps in Egyptwere handed over to the Senussi, Sinai allies of the Turks 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 were held prisoners 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 Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1914 & went to Egypt as a trooper 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before returning for a commission in command of 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]]Duke of Westminster. *[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/throughegyptinw00briggoogtruestoriesofg02mill#page/n348252/mode/2up Index]*[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1733190 ''"The Diary Tale of an Australian Soldier (Captain K.J. Barrett)'the Tara"] page 253 '] 1921. National Library of Australia. In Egypt, the author attended an officers' training school True Stories of instruction at Zeitoun and was commissioned into the 2nd Royal FusiliersGreat War, which was posted to Gallipoli. Subsequently he died on the [[Western Front]] 1917.*[https://archive.org/details/withramcinegypt00serjuoft Volume II''With the R.A.M.C. Editor in Egypt''] by Serjeant-Major, RChief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917.A.M.C 1918 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/australianarmyme00barruoft ''The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt; an illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915easternnightsand00bottiala ''] by James W Barrett, Temporary LieutEastern Nights-Col RAMC and Lieut P E Deane AAMC, Quartermaster, First Australian General Hospital, Egypt 1918 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41911/41911-h/41911-h.htm Gutenberg.org version] with photographs which may be enlarged.:[https://archive.org/details/visionofpossible00barr ''A vision of the possible; what the R.A.M.C. might becomeFlights; an account of some of the medical work in Egypt together with a constructive criticism Record of the R.A.M.COriental Adventure''] by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Alan Bott 1920 Archive.org:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100091115?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The War Work of the Y.M.C.A. in Egypt''] by James W. Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919 Hathi Trust Digital Library*[https://archive.org/details/consultingsurgeo00tubbrich ''A Consulting Surgeon in the Near East''] by A H Tubby RAMC (T). 1920. Archive.org. Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich ''The Diary of author was a Yeomanry M.O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, scout pilot in Palestine and Italy''] by Captain O Teichman RAMC (T F) 1921 Archive.org*[https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18699625 ''War experiences of a Territorial Medical Officer'' (ADMS, 2nd Mounted Divisionwho became, Egyptafter his plane crashed in 1918, 1915-1919)] by Major General Sir Richard Luce, RAMC(T), extracted from the ''Journal a prisoner of the Royal Army Medical Corps''Turks, 1936eventually in Afion-1937, "with photographs stuck in". Also includes an index at rear. Wellcome Library online. If you wish to read online, it is suggested you select “Full screen”, as otherwise it is difficult to read. Articles appeared from April 1936, 66 (4) to December 1937 69 (6). :The online ''JRAMC'' extracts are easier to read, but missing three parts. Gallipoli Chapters 5Kara-9, the remaining chapters are Hissar in respect of Egypt and PalestineTurkey. [http://jramcen.bmjwikipedia.com/content/jramc/66/4/272.full.pdf Chapters 1-3], missing May 1936, [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/66/6/402.full.pdf 6-7], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/1/58.full.pdf 8-9], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/2/121.full.pdf 10-11], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/3/194.full.pdf 12], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/4/268.full.pdf 13], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/5/337.full.pdf 14-15], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/6/405.full.pdf 16], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/1/59.full.pdf 17], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/2/121.full.pdf 18-19], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/3/196.full.pdf 20], missing April 1937, [http:/org/jramc.bmj.comwiki/content/jramc/68/5/347.full.pdf 22Alan_Bott Alan Bott], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/68/6/407.full.pdf 23], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/1/52.full.pdf 24], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/2/125.full.pdf 25-26], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/3/204.full.pdf 27], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/4/270.full.pdf 28], [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/69/5/341.full.pdf 29], missing Dec 1937. :: Part 12 includes details of the types of camel cacolets [litters] used to transport the woundedWikipedia.*''Turkish Days and Ways'' by James Brown MD 1940. The author was a Scot who had lived in Australia most of his life who qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh during WW1 and became a Lieutenant RAMC. He was in a Field Ambulance, serving with a Brigade of Yeomanry at the time of capture at Katia near Romani, twenty three miles from the Suez Canal, c April 1916. He was a POW at Afyon Karahisar. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2232939 Catalogue details], [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2819290002 digital file] nla.gov.au.*Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC (Wellcome Library catalogue ref RAMC/248):''Diary re service in Egypt as ADMS Alexandria District'' [https://wellcomelibraryarchive.org/itemdetails/b20093913 1917-1918turkishdaysways Archive.org version] RAMC/248/2/2/1; .*[httpshttp://wellcomelibraryhdl.orghandle.net/item2027/b20093901 wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"] 1918[page 241] RAMC/248/2/2/2 by A. J. Wellcome Evans 1922 Hathi Trust Digital Library online. See comments The author, a POW had escaped from Germany in the item above about using the Wellcome Library online readerJune 1917.*"An Anti-Malaria Campaign In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestinehis plane came down. An Account of the Preventive Measures undertaken in the 21st Corps area in 1918" He was captured by Colonel E P Sewell Arabs, along with two others, and Brevet Major A S M Macgregor ''Journal subsequently became prisoners of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 34 1920'' Turks. Also available [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34in.ernet.dli.2015.241506/page/n101/mode/2up Part 1, pages 85-100n1 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1920-vol34/page/203/mode/2up Part 2inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, pages 2041914-2181918''] Photographs [https://archive.org/details/jramc-by A Forder 1920-vol34/page/n207/mode/2up Photographs] digital page 208. Archive.orgThe author was an American missionary who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem in November 1914 and jailed by the military He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation. Alternative *[https://militaryhealtharchive.bmj.comorg/contentdetails/jramc/34/2/85.full.pdf file for Part 1turkishprisoners00ininte ''Turkish prisoners in Egypt: a report by the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross''] with Map extracted and better photographs, [https://militaryhealthtranslated from the official reports of the Red Cross Society 1917 Archive.bmj.com/content/jramc/34/3/204.full.pdf Part 2] militaryhealth.bmj.comorg====General including postwar====
*[https://archive.org/details/lightshadeinwar00rossrich ''Light and Shade in War''] by Captain Malcolm Ross, Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces and Noel Ross of ''The Times'' (lately Lance-Corporal with the Anzacs and Lieutenant Territorial Artillery 1916. Archive.org. Includes chapters about Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/onanzactrailbein00anzauoft ''On the Anzac Trail : being Extracts from the Diary of a New Zealand Sapper''] by 'Anzac' 1916 Archive.org. The author joined a NZ unit in London. Includes some chapters covering the stay in Egypt prior to Gallipoli. Book No. 7 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61630/page/n1/mode/2up ''Egypt and the Army''] by Lieut.-Col. P G Elgood 1924 Archive.org. The Egyptian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206336/page/n239 "War and Protectorate"] Chapter IX, page 201 ''Great Britain in Egypt'' by Major E W Polson Newman 1928 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16637/page/n189/mode/2up "Chapter 13, Cairo"] page 159 ''Egyptian Service 1902-1946'' by Sir Thomas Russell Pasha 1949 Archive.org. In 1913 he was appointed Assistant Commandant of the Cairo Police, and in March 1918 became Commandant.
*[https://archive.org/details/britisharmycrisi0000jeff/page/110/mode/2up "The Defence of Suez"] Chapter 7 Page 110 ''The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22'' by Keith Jeffery 1984. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://www.academia.edu/13648514/BOOK_Captain_Sarkis_Torossian_From_Dardanelles_to_Palestine._Boston_1947 ''From Dardanelles to Palestine''] by Captain Sarkis Torossian. Boston,USA. 1947 academia.edu. Article: [https://www.academia.edu/13459061/Joseph_A._Kéchichian_How_the_Armenian_Genocide_Forced_a_Loyal_Ottoman_Officer_to_Espouse_the_Arab_Revolt._Contemporary_Review_of_the_Middle_East_Vol._1_No._4_2014 'How the Armenian Genocide Forced a Loyal Ottoman Officer to Espouse the Arab Revolt"] by Joseph A. Kéchichian, ''Contemporary Review of the Middle East'', Vol. 1, No. 4, 2014. academia.edu. Captain Torossian was of Armenian descent & fought at Gallipoli as an Artillery observer in the Turkish Army. After the Armenian genocide he switched sides & commanded 6.000 Arabian horsemen with the Allied army to Damascus. Article [http://www.academia.edu/14511256/Taner_Akçam_A_short_history_of_the_Torossian_debate_Journal_of_Genocide_Research_Vol._17_No._3_2015 "A short history of the Torossian debate"] by Taner Akçam ''Journal of Genocide Research'', 2015 Vol. 17, No. 3, 345–362.academia.edu. Some do not believe the account to be true. Other articles about Torossian's book may be found on [http://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanTAktar Ayhan Aktar] bilgi.academia.edu
*[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.
*Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library. (Also see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu].)
**IOR/L/PS/11/129 P 4640/1917 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/PS/11/129 The Turkish campaigns in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Hedjaz] 1917.
* ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria'' by John de Vere Loder 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiershandbook00syke ''A soldier's handbook. Palestine and Jerusalem, salient points in the geography, history and present day life of the Holy Land''] by Rev H Sykes, Secretary of the Palestine Mission of the Church Missionary Society c 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/ASoldiersHandbookPalestine 2nd version] with marginally more informative map at rear. Archive.org
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers.
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. Archive.org. Born 1878, he was a veterinary surgeon who had researched camel diseases. During WW1 he worked for a time purchasing camels for the Army. In the late 1920s Leese became a British Fascist anti Jewish politician. His camel books are
**[https://archive.org/details/tips-camels/page/n9/mode/2up ''"Tips" on Camels for Veterinary Surgeons on Active Service''] by A.S. Leese 1918. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n319/mode/2up Palestine from December 1917] page 287. The author was in Palestine in December 1917, and subsequently was appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem
* ''Serbia To Kut'' by Joseph T Parfit 1917. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org. HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster.
:[https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofg02mill#page/252/mode/2up "The Tale of the Tara"] page 253 ''True Stories of the Great War, Volume II''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/easternnightsand00bottiala ''Eastern Nights-and Flights; a Record of Oriental Adventure''] by Alan Bott 1920 Archive.org The author was a scout pilot in Palestine, who became, after his plane crashed in 1918, a prisoner of the Turks, eventually in Afion-Kara-Hissar in Turkey. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bott Alan Bott] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"] [page 241] by A. J. Evans 1922 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, a POW had escaped from Germany in June 1917. In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestine his plane came down. He was captured by Arabs, along with two others, and subsequently became prisoners of the Turks. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241506/page/n1 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, 1914-1918''] by A Forder 1920 Archive.org The author was an American missionary who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem in November 1914 and jailed by the military He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation.
*[https://archive.org/details/turkishprisoners00ininte ''Turkish prisoners in Egypt: a report by the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross''] extracted and translated from the official reports of the Red Cross Society 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dawnofnewerainsy00mcgirich ''The dawn of a new era in Syria''] by Margaret Mcgilvary, Secretary Beirut Chapter, Red Cross 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811458 ''With the Turks in Palestine''] by Alexander Aaronsohn 1916. Also an [https://archive.org/details/withturkspalestine_1301_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org
*[https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0001 ''Mit Jildirim ins Heilige Land : Erinnerungen und Glossen zum Palästina-Feldzug 1917-1918''] by Josef Drexler 1919. German language. With [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0002 Map 1] and [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0243 Map 2]. staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Google Translate title: ''With Jildirim to the Holy Land: Memories and glosses on the Palestine campaign 1917-1918'' [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresgruppe_Yıldırım Heeresgruppe Yıldırım] was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army.
:[https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-2061965 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges Band 4. Jildirim''] by Dr Steuber 1925. German language. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria. With photographs throughout, and three maps at the back of the book.
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