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    Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns: A Guide for Family Historians
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    Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns: A Guide for Family Historians
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    Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns: A Guide for Family Historians

    By Stuart Hadaway

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    Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns is the first book explicitly aimed at helping the descendants of those who fought in this part of the Middle East find out more about their ancestor’s actions, experiences and achievements. Their wartime lives were very different to those who served on the Western Front, and yet have never before been explored from this angle.

    Hundreds of thousands of British and Imperial troops fought in the Western Desert, Sinai Desert, Palestine, the Jordan Valley and Syria. They served in conditions quite unlike those more familiarly faced in France and Flanders, with everyday challenges to survival including the heat, lack of water, hostile wildlife and rampant disease. The fighting too was of a different character, with more open, sweeping campaigns across desert and mountains, and comparatively little systematic trench warfare.

    As well as giving the reader a vivid impression of the experience of wartime service in the region, Stuart Hadaway’s handbook provides a guide to the main sources, archives and websites that researchers can consult to get an insight into their ancestor’s role and their contribution to the war effort.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateJun 30, 2017
    ISBN9781473897274
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    Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns: A Guide for Family Historians
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    Stuart Hadaway

    Stuart Hadaway qualified as a museum curator in 2001 and worked in military museums at a local and national level until 2009 when he joined the Air Historical Branch (RAF) as Senior Researcher for the Official Historians of the Royal Air Force. His is currently the Research and Information Manager at the Branch, but his interest has always been in World War I and the Middle East. He has written seven books on military topics and runs the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in WWI Facebook group.

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