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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208856 ''Allenby, a Study in Greatness; the Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.''] by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East 1940 Archive.org,
*[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-Norfolk-Regiment-1685-1918-Vol-2/HTML/index.asp#/1/ ''The History of the Norfolk Regiment, 1685-1918. Volume II 4th August 1914 to 31st December 1918''] by F. Loraine Petre, published 1926. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Requires Flash 'enabled' to view. If you see a Flash icon, click on it. Includes the 4th and 5th Territorial Battalions, and the 12th Yeomanry Battalion, in Egypt and Palestine.
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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 Archive. org versions, mirrors from 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”.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th (Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[123rd Outram's Rifles]]; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).
:Other regimental histories, see [[101st Grenadiers]]-Egypt and Palestine; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force|The Guides (Infantry)]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]
*''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 a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Vol-vth Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[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.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Palestine.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*[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. May not be accessible in USA etc. Contains a chapter "Royal Marine Artillery Battery in Egypt 1915-1916", page 414. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, and lib.militaryarchive.co.uk, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
*''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/details/jstor-22482 "Weather Controls over the Fighting in Mesopotamia, in Palestine, and near the Suez Canal"] by Robert De C. Ward ''Scientific Monthly'' April 1918 Archive.org
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92596 ''The Operations in Egypt and Palestine, 1914 to June, 1917: illustrating the Field Service Regulations''] by A. Kearsey, Late Lieutenant-Colonel, General Staff. Published Aldershot 1929. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open)
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236469 ''The Palestine Campaigns''] by Colonel A. P. Wavell 1928. Link to a pdf download. Previously was available on the Digital Library of India, and perhaps may reappear in the future. A book in the series ''Campaigns and their lessons.'' :[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208856 ''Allenby, a Study in Greatness; the Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.''] by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East. 1940 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesjune1900murruoft ''Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches, June 1916-June 1917''] [The Commander-In-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force]. Archive.org
**[http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/files.pl?idnum=2187 Maps from ''Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches''] University of Toronto. These maps are not included in the Archive.org file.
:[https://archive.org/details/howjerusalemwasw00mass ''How Jerusalem was Won : being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine''] by W T Massey, 1920 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/allenbysfinaltri00massrich ''Allenby's Final Triumph''] by W T Massey 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
**[https://archive.org/stream/secretservice00geor#page/198/mode/2up British Intelligence in Palestine] from page 199 and [https://archive.org/stream/secretservice00geor#page/302/mode/2up "Chapter XXIII: Allenby in Palestine and Syria in 1918"], page 303, ''Secret Service'' by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
**[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527779 ''Hard Lying''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/HardLying Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title ''“Hard Lying”: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919'' by Captain L B Weldon 1925. The author was a British Army Intelligence Officer , initially OC of a British Ship (HMS Anne previously Aenne Rickmers) carrying a French, later British seaplane squadron used for reconnaissance flights, and subsequently HMY Managem 1917-1919, involved with the supply of agents, money, weapons, etc to the Syrian coast.
**[https://archive.org/details/insideshows01stangoog ''In the Side Shows''] by Captain Wedgewood Benn 1919 Archive.org. Some editions have the title ''In the Side Shows: Observations by a Flier on Five Fronts''. The author was a Member of Parliament and joined the Middlesex Yeomanry, with whom he served at Gallipoli. He subsequently became military observer attached to the Royal Naval Air Service, East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron.
*[https://archive.org/details/desertmountedcor00pres ''The Desert Mounted Corps : An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1918''] by Lieut –Colonel RMP Preston 1921 Archive.org
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1MRif.html ''The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: The Story of New Zealand's Crusaders''] by A. Briscoe Moore late Lieut. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Illustrated by photographs taken with the N.Z.M.R.Brigade in the field. c 1920 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html ''The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine''] by Lieut.-Colonel. C. Guy Powles, Brigade Major N.Z.M.R. Brigade 1914-1916
, A.A. & Q M.G Anzac Mounted Division 1916-1918. From material compiled by Major A. Wilkie, W.M.R. 1922. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/A-History-of-the-Black-Watch-in-the-Great-War-Royal-Highlanders.asp ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Requires Flash 'enabled' to view the books. If you see a Flash icon, click on it. Vol I includes 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia and Palestine. Vol III includes 14th Battalion in Palestine. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume III transcribed edition], including [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page329.html Fourteenth Battalion In Palestine] page 317. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.
*[http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm ''Temporary Crusaders''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1919 Elsewhere it is stated he was Captain, 14th Black Watch (74th Dismounted Yeomanry Division). Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th. 1918. Transcribed version from gwpda.org. Stated elsewhere to be a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and Others|Western Front - Infantry]] for another book by this author.
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/199044 ''2/4 Battalion. Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919''] Published 1920?. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open). The Battalion was in India January 1915-April 1917, where it provided many drafts for Mesopotamia, and was then in Palestine and France.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html ''With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine''] by Major J. H. Luxford N.Z.M.G.C. 1923 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane ''British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918. From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice: Volume II The Tide of Victory''] by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' 1919 Archive.org ([https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane ''Volume I''])
*[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], 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.
**[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279222 ''Secret Despatches From Arabia by T E Lawrence''] Published by permission of the Foreign Office. Archive.org. Originally issued at Cairo 1916-1918.
:[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], mirror from Digital Library of India. Other files are available
:[http://www.armyupress.army.mil/Books/CSI-Press-Publications/World-War-I/#World-War-I ''The Evolution of a Revolt''] by T. E. Lawrence (Late Lieut.-Colonel General Staff, E.E.F.) first published 1939, CSI reprint. Link to a pdf download (scroll down) [US] Army University Press.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.261625 ''With Lawrence in Arabia''] by Lowell Thomas, with photographs by H A Chase and the author. 1924 Archive.org
*[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. [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 as a [httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in241506/handlepage/2015/241506 pdf downloadn1 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
