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==Regimental and Corps Histories==
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18'' by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01008145796
*''A History of the Transport Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1917-1918'' by Brevet Lieut.-Col. G.E. Badcock 1925. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01016303068 . Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008227472 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those in North America etc, or those with suitable university access; [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_History_of_the_Transport_Services_of_t.html?id=72IyAQAAIAAJ Google Books] viewable USA etc.
*''Light Car Patrols, 1916-19 : War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford : a Memoir'' by Captain Claud H. Williams, 1/1st Pembroke Yeomanry, attached No. 5 Light Car Patrol ; with introduction and history of the Patrols by Russell McGuirk 2013. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01016479011 . [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Light_Car_Patrols_1916_19/IRK5BgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvk8w1sf?turn_away=true Contents] jstor.org. Those who have institutional access to jstor.org may possibly be able to access the book text online.
*''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/railway-gazette-special-great-war-transportation-number/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.
*Corps histories etc
**[https://archive.org/details/transport-services-eef/page/n9/mode/2up ''A History of the Transport Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1917-1918''] by G E Badcock 1925 Archive.org
** ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [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.
*:[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmagazi00unkngoog/page/n313 "My Niggers"] by Lieut. J. Railton Holden, page 286 February 1919, ''The Wide World: the magazine for everybody, Volume 42''. Poor quality digital file. Men from the Egyptian Labour Corps.
*[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
**[httphttps://krishikosharchive.egranth.ac.inorg/details/tips-camels/page/handlen9/1mode/224542up '' "Tips" on camels Camels for veterinary surgeons Veterinary Surgeons on active serviceActive Service''] by A.S. Leese 1918. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: Indian Agricultural Research InstituteArchive.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
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