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**''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919'' edited by Major G. Goold Walker 1930 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/honourable-artillery-company-in-the-great-war-1914-1919/ ''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/title/933/military-books/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19BBYgtPhX online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. A Territorial regiment which includes A and B Artillery Batteries which sailed for Egypt in April 1915 and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the desert and in Palestine.
*Artillery
**[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/withourarmyinpal00blue ''With Our Army in Palestine''] by Antony Bluett, late of “A” Battery, H A C and Egyptian Camel Transport Corps 1919 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n227/mode/2up "Palestine"] page 221 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. The author in Palestine from August 1917 as a Battery Commander. He was a career soldier born 1877.
*[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".
→Historical books online
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77401/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shifting Sands''] by Major N N E Bray (Norman Napier Evelyn) 1934 Archive.org. Includes a chapter about Lawrence. Bray was originally with the 18th Bengal Lancers.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WXFGDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=oMqUy46uiO&dq=Norman%20Napier%20Evelyn%20Bray&pg=PA23 Page 23] ''Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt'' by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.</ref> Initially during WW1 Bray was working under Sir Mark Sykes, and for the Arab Bureau. C October 1917 he returned to France and his regiment. Subsequently he became the Hakim (Governor) of Kerbela, as a part of the British Administration of A. T Wilson in Mesopotamia.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.36027/page/87/mode/2up Chapter IV, "War Time Memories" page 88] from his book ''As I Seem to Remember'' by Leonard Woolley 1962. He was an archaeologist, in Intelligence during the war, based at Port Said. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolley Leonard Woolley] Wikipedia. He became a Prisoner of War in Turkey, see his further book on the page [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]].
**[https://archive.org/details/arabbureaubritis0000west ''The Arab Bureau : British policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920''] by Bruce Westrate 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. *Artillery**[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).**''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919'' edited by Major G. Goold Walker 1930 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/honourable-artillery-company-in-the-great-war-1914-1919/ ''The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/title/933/military-books/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19BBYgtPhX online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. A Territorial regiment which includes A and B Artillery Batteries which sailed for Egypt in April 1915 and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the desert and in Palestine.**[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**[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of ''Amateur Gunners'' published 1933. Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and in Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n227/mode/2up "Palestine"] page 221 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. The author in Palestine from August 1917 as a Battery Commander. He was a career soldier born 1877.*Cavalry **''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_f1m1/mode/2up Volume 5 1914-1919 Egypt, Palestine and Syria''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1994 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.**[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***The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]**[https://archive.org/details/r-gloucester-hussars-yeomanry/page/n11/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1898-1922. The Great Cavalry Campaign in Palestine''] by Frank Fox 1923. Archive.org
*British Army Infantry regimental histories etc
** ''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. 1 includes 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia and Palestine. Vol. 3 includes 14th Battalion in Palestine.
*:[https://archive.org/details/temporary-crusaders/page/n7/mode/2up ''Temporary Crusaders''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1919. Archive.org. [http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm Transcribed version from gwpda.org.]. Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th. 1918. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and Others|Western Front - Infantry]] for another book by this author. Elsewhere it is stated he was Captain, 14th Black Watch (74th Dismounted Yeomanry Division).
*:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002# ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 access.bl.uk British Library
**[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".
**[https://archive.org/details/sevenmanchester00wilsuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Seventh Manchesters, July 1916 to March 1919''] by Captain S J Wilson 1920. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on the regiment in Egypt.
**[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]].
**[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], and in Egypt and Palestine.**[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named. 1921. Gutenberg.org. From 1908 titled 15th Battalion London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles), the 2nd Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade, [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk) at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and Palestine.**[https://archive.org/details/royal-irish-rifles-great-war/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the First Seven Battalions, the Royal Irish Rifles (now the Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War''] by Cyril Falls 1925. Archive.org. Service on the [[Western Front]], at [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika ]] and in Palestine.
**[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".
**[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org. The campaign in Palestine was part of the war against Turkey.
**[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-The-Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry-1914-1919/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Transcription by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L5QFAQAAIAAJ Snippet view, Searchable] Google Books. Also Searchable at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442490 HathiTrust Digital Library] (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]])
**[https://archive.org/details/52nd-lowland-division/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] by Lt Col R.R Thompson 1923. Archive.org. Missing most/all of the maps. Also available in a reprint edition which would probably include the maps,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/fifty-second-lowland-division-1914-1918/ ''Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XuCdqIKO online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The history of a Territorial Army division that fought at [[Gallipoli]], in Egypt, Palestine and from May 1918, on the Western Front.
**''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T. F.)'' by Major C.H Dudley Ward 1927 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-53rd-welsh-division/ ''History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19hrv57PT0 online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The record of a Territorial division which served in [[Gallipoli]], and Egypt and Palestine.
*Australian regimental histories etc
**[https://archive.org/details/australiainpales00gull ''Australia in Palestine''] H.S. Gullett, Chas. Barrett, editors ; David Barker, art editor 1919. Archive.org. With coloured sketches and many photographs. Also available [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2473740 National Library of Australia version] where colour of images differs and pages may be rotated.
**[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. [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE710372/rep/REP710920/FL710921?dps_dvs=1577334198718~670 Alternative file format]. Both formats from New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
**''Official History of the New Zealand Engineers During the Great War 1914-1919'', published 1927. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Engi.html Version 1], [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE707936/rep/REP708241/FL708242?dps_dvs=1577334656021~35 Version 2]. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Engi-t1-front-d5.html Contents]. Includes Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Both formats from Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand in the First World War 1914-1918 Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/bywaysonservicen00dinnrich ''By-ways on Service : Notes from an Australian Journal''] by Hector Dinning 1918
:[https://archive.org/details/niletoaleppowith00dinnuoft ''Nile to Aleppo, with the Light-Horse in the Middle-East''] by Hector Dinning, Captain, Australian Army. 1920 Archive.org
