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**The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]
*British Army Infantry regimental histories
** ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. 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], (OCR derived, so subject to error) 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://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. Article [http://www.academia.edu/14511256/Taner_Akçam_A_short_history_of_the_Torossian_debate_Journal_of_Genocide_Research_Vol._17_No._3_2015 "A short history of the Torossian debate"] by Taner Akçam ''Journal of Genocide Research'', 2015 Vol. 17, No. 3, 345–362.academia.edu. Some do not believe the account to be true. Other articles about Torossian's book may be found on [http://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanTAktar Ayhan Aktar] bilgi.academia.edu
*[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/declinefallofott0000palm/page/220 "Germany’s Ally"] Chapter 15, page 221 ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'' by Alan Palmer 1994. The political situation during the WW1 period until 1923 when the Allied occupation of Constantinople came to an end. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206336/page/n239 "War and Protectorate"] Chapter IX, page 201 ''Great Britain in Egypt'' by Major E W Polson Newman 1928 Archive.org
*[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/dawnofnewerainsy00mcgirich ''The dawn of a new era in Syria''] by Margaret Mcgilvary, Secretary Beirut Chapter, Red Cross 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811458 ''With the Turks in Palestine''] by Alexander Aaronsohn 1916. Also an [https://archive.org/details/withturkspalestine_1301_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org
*[https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0001 ''Mit Jildirim ins Heilige Land : Erinnerungen und Glossen zum Palästina-Feldzug 1917-1918''] by Josef Drexler 1919. German language. With [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0002 Map 1] and [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN724894586&PHYSID=PHYS_0243 Map 2]. staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Google translate of the Translate title: ''With Jildirim to the Holy Land: Memories and glosses on the Palestine campaign 1917-1918'' [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresgruppe_Yıldırım Heeresgruppe Yıldırım] was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/palestinedisturb00grearich/page/n1 ''Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with correspondence relating thereto''] Presented to Parliament October 1921. HMSO 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofpalest00lukeuoft ''The Handbook of Palestine''] edited by Harry Charles Luke and Edward Keith-Roach. Issued under the Authority of the [British] Government of Palestine 1922 Archive.org
