T.E. Lawrence & the Arab Revolt.- Green (Wilfrith

T.E. Lawrence & the Arab Revolt.- Green (Wilfrith Gerald Key, compiler, commander 10th Cavalry Brigade, 1872-1937) History of the 10th Cavalry Brigade Operations - September and October, 1918 and subsequent moves, up to its arrival at Beirut, duplicated typescript, 46pp., 2 sketch maps, all ff. loose, first f. corner torn not affecting text, browned, slightly creased, some pencil marks in margins, folio, 1918.

⁂ "An Arab Force under Colonel Lawrence believed to be operating N[orth] and E[ast] of the 4th Cav. Div." - Green's Report.

An unpublished eye witness account of the British Army's campaign in Palestine and Syria with several references to T.E. Lawrence. The report describes several key military actions of the Syrian campaign and includes atrocities carried out by Lawrence's Arab Force which Lawrence himself admitted to in both Seven Pillars of Wisdom and in his famous letter to his brother. The report includes: the capture of Beisan, "One of the German Officer prisoners gave a harrowing account of the appalling state of demoralisation of the Turkish columns on the retreat from Nablus. Our bombing planes had given them no peace day or night." The attack on Deraa, "Lawrence's Arab Force is in area and will co-operate with us." Deraa being the sc ene of Lawrence's much debated rape. On 28th September Green reports that he "met Colonel Lawrence with some of his Arab Irregulars." He claims that "the cruelty exhibited by irresponsible Arabs to the miserable vanquished Turks was abominable in the extreme." Outside Damascus 5000 Turkish troops were taken prisoner by the Australian Mounted Division.