Affentitten Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 One of my students is doing his Honours thesis on Australian troops in Egypt and Palestine during WW1 and 2. Mainly to do with first person accounts of the way that they viewed the Arabs. Just wondering if anybody knew of any Commonwealth military guides for soldiers serving there. That sort of "Never shag an Arab's sister..." advice for young men away for the first time. I found an American one here http://archive.org/details/PocketGuideToEgypt_251 There is soemthing called the Forces Guide to Cairo that is easy to find online, but it's mainly aimed at communicating the addresses of wholseome clubs and hotels. I was looking for something a bit more to do with sin and wickedness. Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 You could try the NZ National Library http://www.natlib.govt.nz/ maybe TimeFrames... http://find.natlib.govt.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&vid=TF&dstmp=1338849523871&fromLogin=true ... although that's mainly digitised imagery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Somewhere in a book on Kiwi ANZACs I recall seeing a poster/flyer for NZ troops in Egypt in WW1 - it was along he lines of "these wogs (sic-ish) are not nice noble darkies (sic-ish) like Maori - don't expect them to behave the same, and don't treat them the same" - I'll see if I can find a reference for you - I do have the book somewhere..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Affentitten, Here's a start. http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-soldiers-accused-wwi-war-crimes-2870490 http://ww1talk.co.uk/showthread.php?982-WWI-Sinai-and-Palestine-Campaign Particularly useful! http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/surafend.htm AWM WW I (digging required; lots of it.) http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/awm4/ Research for Family War Diaries http://www.curryww1.com/battle-maps.asp Australian official guides http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/content.php?pid=41302&sid=688550 Personal stories from above http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/content.php?pid=41302&sid=304186 http://australiansofarabia.wordpress.com/fair-dinkum-wwi-history/ http://www.anzacs.net/MainLinks.htm WW I Slang http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/~davidt/z_ww1_slang/index_bak.htm Nurses http://www.fass.uts.edu.au/army-women/nursing.html Resource http://www.1914-1918.net/grandad/grandad.htm Memoirs http://www.amazon.com/Australian-WW1-memoirs/lm/R1QZFY3LTGU4L4 Arab view of Lawrence of Arabia http://www.al-bushra.org/arabwrld/lawrance.htm Self-explanatory http://article.wn.com/view/2012/04/23/Kiwi_says_Australian_WWI_soldiers_were_bludgers_and_thieves_q/ Arab soldier's account http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520259553 Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Affentitten, This should really help! http://www.awm.gov.au/findingaids/special/Souvenirs/entertainment.xml http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670 Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Good stuff JK 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 dieseltaylor, Happy to service! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Affentitten, Was what I supplied useful, or more like drinking from the fire hydrant? Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__Yossarian0815[jby] Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 We had our first pay day on Christmas Eve and leave was general, and everybody went straight into Cairo. Our own party of four really disgraced ourselves, AWOL for three days, finally and very ignomiuosly dragged out of the Eden Palace Hotel in the early hours of the morning by the picket and made to walk it home into the guard tent... Private George Scott, 4th (New South Wales) Batallion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, AIF Quoted from Gallipolli, by Peter Hart 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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