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Title: With Our Army in Palestine

Author: Antony Bluett

Release Date: November 27, 2006 [EBook #19941]

Language: English

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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.
3 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1919

TO
MY WIFE

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

CHAP. PAGE

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