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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.
*[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 he 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/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/farewelltohorses0000hoyt/page/n3/mode/2up ''Farewell to the Horses : Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919''] [Cady Cyril Hoyte] edited by Robert Elverstone 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hoyte joined the Machine Gun Corps of the Warwickshire Yeomanry 28 June 1915, and arrived in Egypt December 1915, remaining in Palestine until mid 1918. [http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-yeomanry-regiments-of-1914-1918/warwickshire-yeomanry/ Warwickshire Yeomanry] (longlongtrail.co.uk) which became part of Imperial Mounted Division/Australian Mounted Division.
*Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library. (Also see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu].)
**IOR/L/PS/11/129 P 4640/1917 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/PS/11/129 The Turkish campaigns in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Hedjaz] 1917.
