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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. Includes Egypt, Sinai from February 1916 to August 1916. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force).
*[https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/86 Alexandria] page 86, ''The Grey Wave'' by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title: [https://archive.org/details/gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Gun Fodder; the diary of four years of war''] 1919. Both Archive.org. He was an officer, Royal Field Artillery, 67 Artillery Brigade,<ref>[http://www.orientalvagabonds.com/2018/11/we-will-remember-them-all.html "We Will Remember Them All"] William Regan (68) Field Artillery Brigade. November 05, 2018. orientalvagabonds.com</ref> which was in Alexandria for five and a half months in 1915, prior to being sent to [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)‎|‎Salonika]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), novelist.
*[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".
*[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.
:[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. India, Egypt/Palestine, [[Western Front]].
*[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/cu31924027845860/page/n10 ''Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers with a memoir by Harry Graham''] 1919. Includes [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027845860/page/n27 "Letters written from Egypt"], page 13. Archive.org. He enlisted in 1914 & went to Egypt as a trooper in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before returning for a commission in the Lothian & Borders Horse early in 1915.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 110.</ref> Also includes [[Western Front]].
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. India, Egypt/Palestine, [[Western Front]].
*[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".
* ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria'' by John de Vere Loder 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
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