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*''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/australianflying00cutluoft ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918''] by F M Cutlack 1933 (first published 1923). ''The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918: Volume VIII'' 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.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/londonmeninpale00coldgoog ''London men in Palestine, and how they marched to Jerusalem''] by Rowlands Coldicott 1919 Archive.org. The author was, at least at one time, a Captain in the 21st(County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), with the 2nd/21st serving in Palestine, as did the 2nd/20th and 2nd/22nd. The 2/21st, was disbanded on 3 June 1918 with men drafted to other London battalions, but was reformed in 1920.
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