Book advice for Egypt/Suez/Palestine

[AndrewSid]

After some advice on good books on the North Africa to Palestine campaign of WW1.   

I’m trying to follow a great Uncle ( Thomas A Siddall 4030/110570) who was most likely in A Sqn of the Duke of Lancasters Yeomanry initially in Egypt from Oct 1915 til his death in Oct 1918.

Any hints on good reads most welcome.

Thanks

Edited 4 July , 2021 by AndrewSid

[assafx]

A squadron was under the 53rd division until august 1917. they have a divisional history book : Ward Dudley, Hustory of the 53 (welsh ) division 1914-1918  .  In august 1917 the squadron moved to the XXI core. One of the divisions, the 52nd division, have one of the best history books about the palestine campaign. Thompson R.R   The fifty-second (Lowland Division 1914-1918.

you have decent general books about the campaign by John D. Grainger: The battle for palestine 1917 and the battle for syria 1918-1920.

 

Assaf

Edited 7 July , 2021 by assafx

[MaureenE]

There are many online books linked from the FIBIS Fibiwiki page  Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War) (section Historical books online)  most of which are free. https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Egypt,_Palestine,_Syria_(First_World_War)

The first two books mentioned by assafx are available  in Naval & Military Press reprint editions, which in turn are available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3. They are linked from the Fibiwiki page.

Maureen

[AndrewSid]

Thankyou both very much.  I will get ordering.   It’s a shame the NA war diaries aren’t digitised yet.

 

 

[James A Pratt III]

awm.gov.au you can find the Austrailian official histories

there was a site generstab.org which did have Military Operations volumes for Palestine ect but it seems to down for now.

archive.org has War in the Air the RAF official history volumes

[seaJane]

All these are on the medical side but may be of background interest.

The Australian Army Medical Services official histories, vol 1 (Butler AG. The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918. Vol.1, pt 1. The Gallipoli campaign: pt 2. Downes RM. The campaign in Sinai and Palestine: pt 3. Maguire FA, Cilento RW. The occupation of German New Guinea. 2nd ed. Canberra, ACT: Australian War Memorial, 1938) are available on this link along with vols 1 & 3: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1416843

I know of two more items which don't have online access, so I haven't included them for the moment.

Barrett JW, Deane PW. 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. London: H. K. Lewis, 1918. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41911

Canadian Stationary Hospital No. 5 (Queen's). Queen's Hospital: No. 5 Stationary Hospital (Queen's), Canadian Mediterranean Forces, Abbassia Barracks, Cairo, Egypt. Kingston, Ont.: [s.n.], 1915? https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-osl_queens-hospital-no5-stationary_pamphlet-5281/page/n3/mode/2up

Dolev E. Allenby's military medicine: life and death in World War I Palestine. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/78132/1/24.pdf

[Edwardes ET]. With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt, by “Serjeant-Major, R.A.M.C.” London: Cassell, 1918. https://archive.org/details/withramcinegypt00serjuoft

Hoofien S. Report of Mr. S. Hoofien to the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, New York, concerning relief work in Palestine from August 1st, 1917 to May 31st, 1918. New York: Schoen Printing Co., 1918. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t6349bd6k&view=1up&seq=9

Teichman O. Diary of a Yeomanry M.O.: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy. London: Fisher Unwin, 1921; Uckfield: The Naval & Military Press Ltd, 2002. https://archive.org/details/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich

Regards,

seaJane

[AndrewSid]

Thankyou  all very much for the list.  First book has arrived and working through the rest.

[JulianB]

Like you, I am researching my great-grandfather who was also in the 53^rd Div (RA) in Egypt and Palestine – 1915-19.  Although I am lucky to have his diary as does his Service File (in TNA), I found these books very useful…

Bruce, A  2002  The Last Crusade. John Murray, London.                 

Bullock, DL, 1988, Allenby's War: The Palestine-Arabian Campaigns, 1916-1918. Blandford Press, London

Falls, CB, 1928-1930, History of the Great War based on Official Documents. Military Operations, Egypt and Palestine, Volume 2.  From June 1917 to the end of the war. Parts 1 and 2, HMSO, London.

Gilbert, V, 1923,   The Romance of the Last Crusade: With Allenby to Jerusalem. WB Feakins, New York.

McMunn, G and Falls, CB, 1928, History of the Great War based on Official Documents. Military Operations, Egypt and Palestine, Volume I, From the outbreak of war with Germany to June 1917. HMSO, London.

Pirie-Gordon, H, (compiled by), 1919 (2^nd Ed.), A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptiam Expeditionary Force under the Command of Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby GCB, GCMG, July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources. HMSO, London

Ward, CH Dudley, 1927, History of the 53^rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.)  1914 – 1918. Western Mail Ltd., Cardiff.

Wavell, A, 1928, The Palestine Campaigns (1914-1918). Constable, London