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*[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.
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*[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
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine. Page 127 contains a description of the action in which Lieut. Whyte was killed, at Khurbet Adaseh, just north of Jerusalem. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[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://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
*[https://archive.org/details/cameliers00hogurich ''The Cameliers''] by Oliver Hogue 1919. Archive.org. The Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Came.html ''With the Cameliers in Palestine''] by John Robertson, formerly of the Fourth Battalion of the Imperial Camel Brigade, T. Major New Zealand Mounted Rifles. 1938. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-kiaOraCooee.html ''The Kia Ora Coo-Ee : The Magazine For The Anzacs In The Middle East, 1918''] 10 Monthly editions, from March-December 1918. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library. For the contents, click on the title text below the cover image.[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022560388.0x000002#?si=0&ci=4&z=-0.168%2C0%2C1.3361%2C1.3026 Volume 1, March 1918] is available online from the British Library. access.bl.uk. All may be slow to open.
*[https://archive.org/details/withbritisharmyi00lockrich ''With the British Army in the Holy Land''] by Major H O Lock, Dorsetshire Regiment 1919 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/khakicrusaderswi00coop ''Khaki Crusaders. With the South African Artillery in Egypt and Palestine''] by F H Cooper 1919 Archive.org
*[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.*[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://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 died on the [[Western Front]] 1917.
*[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/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 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
