Item ROBERTSON, WR 8/1/64 - Letter from General Sir Edmund Allenby to Robertson, 19 Jul 1917, about plans for operations in Palestine

Letter to Robertson from Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, notably requesting Capt Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse as Brig Gen, General Staff, of the Mounted Corps; asking Robertson to reconsider his refusal to allow the formation of an Australian Light Horse Bde; questioning the practicality of Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, General Officer Commanding, 1 ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), British Armies in France, retaining control over the Australian Expeditionary Forces; the move of two garrison battalions from the Egypt Delta onto the Palestine Line of Communications; the need for Capt Thomas Edward Lawrence, Official British Advisor to Faisal Ibn Hussein, and the Northern Arab Army to be prepared to advance by Sep; a request for the sanctioning of the doubling of the railway line as far as Rafa. 3pp.