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*[https://archive.org/details/desertcolumn ''The Desert Column. Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine''] by Ion L Idriess 1932. Archive.org. A transcribed version.
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*[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. [https://archive.org/details/5thlighthorse/File1_5thLightHorse/ Archive.org version], also transcribed. 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.:[https://archive.org/details/desertcolumn ''The Desert Column. Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine''] by Ion L Idriess 1932. Archive.org. A transcribed version. Idriess was a member of the 5th Light Horse.
*[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.
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*[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''.
