SP22

Daher, Sherari boy 493, 494, 501, 686

Dahoum 20

Dakhil-Allah el Kadhi: character and appearance 222; leads Turks to Yenbo 118, 121, 222; (157, 202, 208); on railway raids 203, 209–15, 250; in camp with Abdulla 222–3; wife 224

Dalmeny, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord 508

Damascus, Syria 23, 223, 360, 361, 362, 363; described 362, 363; on outbreak of WWI 30–1, 32; Feisal detained in by Jemal 32–3, 34, 176, 664; Arab nationalists leave 34, 176; TEL's goal 139, 168, 274; Nesib's immediate goal 293–4; pretended Arab target 305–6; trains leaving 423; Arab allies in 434; merchants from, with gifts 490; goal 631, 702; plans to take 663–4; railways to be cut 723; Allenby's plans for taking 754, 760, 783–4, 790–1, 796; Barrow marches to 784, 785; TEL rides to 785; Arab advance to 790; Feisal's committee in 791–2, 794; Germans and Turks leave 792; TEL arrives 792–3; Arab celebration and administration 793–9; Chauvel arrives 796–7; setting up government and services 799–802, 804; rebellion 802–4; Hotel Victoria 803; hospitals 804–7, 808–9; normality restored 808–11; Feisal and Allenby arrive 810; TEL leaves 811, 812; TEL in, Oct. 1918 ill.; Allenby arrives ill.; Feisal in ill.; Diary Oct. 1918 820

Dana village 534, 565, 566

dances, sword- 594

Darausha clan 322, 323, 390, 397, 421

Dardanelles campaign 31, 32, 53, 736

Darraj, el, Khubt 182

dates: eaten 73, 113, (green 339, 341), 442; grown 74; northerly, red 708

Daud: first appeals to TEL 251; beaten by Saad 252; becomes TEL's servant 252; on march to Akaba 259, 269, 289, 290, 335; dyes Yusuf's camel 438; on railway raids 437, 438, 439, 459–60, 476; at Azrak 489, 581; death 581–2

Davenport, Major W. A., West Yorkshire Regiment 5, 232, 411

Dawahir clan 130

dawn 70

Dawnay, Lieutenant-Colonel Alan G. C., Coldstream Guards 5; character 579; at Guweira 555, 579; in Cairo 579–80; in Akaba 580, 583; returns to MID 584; reports to Feisal 602; in Guweira 603, 605–7; science 605–6; in armoured car raid 607–10; success 607–8; with TEL at GHQ 611, (618–19); with TEL at GHQ 632–3, 636; (638); devises plan for ICC operations 639–41; (647, 662); at Aba el Lissan with Feisal 663, 664, 669; (677, 697, 698, 702, 712, 713, 755); with TEL and Hogarth, 1918 ill.

Dawnay, Brigadier-General Guy P. 427–8, 510, 511, 612, 633; personality 427–8 

Dead Sea 236, 301, 503, 547; plans for Arabs to reach 510, 511–12, 537; Arabs close down Turkish marine traffic 547

death: Arab attitude to 18, 310–11, 690; in battle, necessity for 328–9; certainty of 451; leisure 463; of wounded men 597; sought in combat 630; desired 652–3; in AR 659–60; to spare the wounded 413, 598, 690; and uniform 788; in Damascus hospital 806

Deedes, Sir Wyndham H. 166, 566, 755

degradation 680, 789; see also punishment

Delagha 340, 374, 514

Deraa: station 471, 495; market 475; railway junction 492, 494; TEL explores area 493–4; TEL enters town 494–5; aerodrome 495, 724, 784–5; TEL in hands of Turks in 495–501; expedition sets off for 638, 639; plans to take 640–3, 645–7, 648, 662, 663–4, 700, 702, 703, 711–12, 718; railways to 711; bombed 718; railways blocked 721, 722–3, 728; preparations, 17 Sept. 1918 724; magistrates oVer to TEL 732; hostilities 748, 749; Turks' reserves at 760; Allies force evacuation 764; Turks prepare to evacuate 773; police as prisoners of Arabs 774; Turks moving north from 778–9; Trad takes 779–80; TEL returns to 780–1; British prepare to attack 781; bombed by British 781; Barrow at 781–4; Arab administration 781–3; TEL remains at 784–5; Diary Sept. 1918 820

dervishes: at Damascus 795

Derwish well 66, 81, 104, 124

desert 13–14, 15, 19; life in 8–9, 10, 11, 462–3; people of 16–17, 20–2; property in 68; driving in 697; storms 697; solitude 784; see also Beduin; tribes; wells; place names 

detachment 11–12

Dhaba 175–6, 314; Diary June 1917 817

Dhahal, Wadi 569–70; Diary Feb. 1918 818

Dhaif-Allah, Wabsi 244–5, 246

Dhaif Allah Abu Tiyur 177, 318, 328  

Dhakiyeh hills 264

Dhat el Haj 379, 643

Dheilan, head man of the Darusha 421, 423

Dherwa, Wadi 457

Dhiab el Auran, Sheikh of Tafileh 535, 536, 538, 567, 710

Dhib 208

Dhibat clan 234

Dhifran, Jebel: skirmish 130–1

Dhifran pass 94–5, 108, Diary Jan. 1917 816 

Dhirwa, Wadi 670, 671, 686, 688, 695; Diary Nov. 1917 817

Dhuheil, Wadi 486, 752

Dhuleil 313; bridge 307, 309

Dhulm 147; Diary Jan. 1917 816

Dhumaniyeh tribe: attack Fuweilah 319, 320–1; abandon Aba el Lissan 322; threaten mutiny 391, 396; rejoin TEL 397; attack railway 418; see also Gasim Abu Dumaneik

Dhurmush, Turkish officer 320–1

dialects 111, 246, 277, 439

diary and notebooks, TEL's 658, 679; diary quoted 816–20

Dionysus of Tarsus 563

diplomatic amenities 55–6  

Diraa, Wadi 253, 259, 260

discipline: TEL's bodyguard 750–1; military 371, 585–9; see also punishment

disease 640; in Turkish army 36; see also dysentery; fever

disguise 595

Disi 516, 613, 662; Diary Apr., May 1918 819 

Dizad 377

doctrinaire illusions 25–6  

dogs 283, 284, 288

dolerite 721, 744

dough cake 68, 70

Doughty, Charles Montague 154, 249

Dowsett, Captain S. G., HACC (MGC) 5, 515

Dowson, Ernest: 'Impenitentia Ultima' quoted 326–7

dress: Arab 88, 148–9, 574, (Abdulla 221), (headdress 97–8, 137, 145), (worn by TEL 97, 115, 170, 345, 574, 655, 793); of dead enemies 330–1; TEL's bodyguard 460; TEL exchanges with Ali 503–4; disguise 595; Rualla chiefs 654; see also uniform, military

Driver, Corporal 529–30

drugs 500

Druse, Jebel 17, 305, 441, 478, 488, 502, 646, 674, 766

Druse tribes 293, 358, 359, 360, 430, 725; Northern 433; Southern 433; at

Damascus 792, 794–5, 802–3, 804

Dufferin, HMS: at Yenbo 120, 125, 134; (135, 174); sent to Akaba 346, 347; returns 351; Diary July 1917 817

Durham, John Lambton, Earl of 383

Durzi ibn Dughmi 292, 654, 714, 729, 772

duty 766–7, 789

dysentery 183–4, 199, 402, 412, 415, 489