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===Historical books online===
*''History of the Great War: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine'': [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210672 ''From the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917''] by Lieut-General Sir George MacMunn and Captain Cyril Falls HMSO 1928 . [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/211976 ''Volume 2 June 1917 to the End of the War: Part 1''] by Cyril B Falls 1930 [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/6782 Volume 2, ''From June 1917 to the End of the War Part II''] by Cyril Falls 1930 . Catalogue links to pdfs. Digital Library of India . Archive.org versions: [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://archive.org/details/australianimperi07gulluoft ''The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914-1918''] by H S Gullett 1923 Archive.org. ''Volume VII, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918''. The Preface states “The story… in its bolder features covers the whole British force”.
*''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.
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. Includes ''Tome IX. Les fronts secondaires. Premier volume. Théâtre d'opérations du Levant (Égypte - Palestine - Syrie - Hedjaz); Deuxième volume. Les campagnes coloniales : ...Opérations contre les Senoussis.'' With online maps (Cartes).
*''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 as two pdf downloads from the Digital Library of India : [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/275945 Vol. V 237 pages] , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275945 Archive.org version], and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth 574 pages], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.orgversion]. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.orgversion]. Includes chapters on the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Palestine.
*[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. Hathi Trust Digital Library. 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.
**The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]
*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/MIL/17/6/78 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=ior/l/mil/17/6/78 ''History of the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918''] London: HMSO, 1920. Includes maps. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/73589 pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73589 Archive.org version].
***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
**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.
*[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
*[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".
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/466 ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria''] by John de Vere Loder 1923. Link to a pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version].
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 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 include
**[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/22454'' "Tips" on camels for veterinary surgeons on active service''] by A.S. Leese 1918. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/103291 ''Revolt In The Desert''] by T E Lawrence 1927. Link to a pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.103291 Archive.org version]. Other files are available
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs''] 1937 Archive.org. The author worked in Egypt in from 1904, initially in the Egyptian Civil Service, subsequently as Oriental Secretary (British Foreign Office)
**[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
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/143207 ''Serbia To Kut''] by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India - full . [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version]. 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
