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WITH OUR ARMY IN PALESTINE
BY ANTONY BLUETT
LATE OF "A" BATTERY, H.A.C., AND EGYPTIAN CAMEL TRANSPORT CORPS
LONDON: ANDREW MELROSE LTD.
1919
FOREWORD
Little has been said, and less written, of the campaigns in Egypt and Palestine.
This book is an attempt to give those interested some idea of the work and play
and, occasionally, the sufferings of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, from the
time of its inception to the Armistice. Severely technical details have been
reduced to a minimum, the story being rather of men than matters; but such
necessary figures and other data of which I had not personal knowledge, have
been taken from the official dispatches and from the notes of eye-witnesses.
Here I should like most cordially to thank the following old comrades for their
generous help: Capt. B. T. Hinchley, R.A.S.C., late of the Egyptian Camel
Transport Corps, and L. Allard Stonard, Esq., late of "A" Battery, the
Honourable Artillery Company, for permission to print their excellent
photographs, which will, I am sure, add materially to the interest of the book;
and R. Arrowsmith, Esq., late of "A" Battery, the Honourable Artillery Company,
whose admirable notes have been of the greatest assistance to me in compiling
some of the later chapters.
ANTONY BLUETT.
Highgate, July 1919.
CONTENTS
I. Mersa Matruh and the Senussi 1
II. "Somewhere East of Suez..." 19
III. on 'untin'—and Some Other Matters 38
IV. Kantara and the Railway 46
V. The
Wire Road 63
VI. "The Long, Long Trail" 75
VII. On the Fringe of the Holy Land
88
VIII. The First Battle of Gaza 98
IX. The Retreat 113
X. The Second Attempt
127
XI. Tel el Jemmi and the Camels 144
XII. Cave Dwellers and Scorpions 157
XIII. In the Wadi 170
XIV. The Attack on Beersheba 184
XV. Gaza at Last 196
XVI.
The Road to Jerusalem 211
XVII. Où l'on s'amuse 223
XVIII. In the Jordan Valley
235
XIX. The Valley of Chaos 247
XX. In Full Cry 260
XXI. Over the Ladder of Tyre 270
XXII. Deserted Villages in Lebanon 281
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Native Market at Mersa Matruh 16
Sunday Morning in the Gulf of Suez 32
Feluccas
bringing Supplies to Kantara 64
"The Long, Long Trail" 80
I. Camouflaging a Tent
with Desert Scrub 144
II. A Camel Convoy 144
Summer in the Wadi Ghuzzee 176
In
the Jordan Valley—Wadi Auja 240
I. A Water Convoy 256
II. The Valley of Chaos—before the Turkish Retreat
256 The Valley of Chaos—after the Bombing Raid 272
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