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*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/302 In Egypt, as a Royal Flying Corps pilot] page 303, ''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org. An American, he had previously spent most of the war period in Russia as a businessman, and was in Petrograd [Saint Petersburg] when the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. He went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day.
*''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919'' [catalogued] by Major J.Everidge, R.A.F. is available as a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-no-30-squadron-raf-egypt-and-mesopotamia-1914-to-1919/ ''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> of an original Air Ministry Historical Branch typed document, probably first published as a reprint c 2004, which in turn is available as an online book on the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phiOmLuyYn Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt.
*See [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)#Intelligence|Intelligence, above]] for an account of the work of the East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron.
=====Prisoners of War=====
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org. HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster.
*[https://archive.org/details/inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, 1914-1918''] by A Forder 1920 Archive.org The author was an American missionary who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem in November 1914 and jailed by the military He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation.
*[https://archive.org/details/turkishprisoners00ininte ''Turkish prisoners in Egypt: a report by the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross''] extracted and translated from the official reports of the Red Cross Society 1917 Archive.org
 
====General including postwar====
*[https://archive.org/details/lightshadeinwar00rossrich ''Light and Shade in War''] by Captain Malcolm Ross, Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces and Noel Ross of ''The Times'' (lately Lance-Corporal with the Anzacs and Lieutenant Territorial Artillery 1916. Archive.org. Includes chapters about Egypt.
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