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Fagair, Wadi Hamdh 180

Fagir, el, well 112

Fahad, Sherif 124, 556–7, 602

Fahad el Hansha, Sheikh 188–9

Fahad el Zebn, son of Trad: career and character 459; joins TEL 459, 462; on Yarmuk raid 465, 467, 468, 469, 473–5, 484–5, 511; wounded 485, 486; (591); at Azrak 714

Fahdah clan 130

Faiz Beni Sakhr clan 567, 592, 593, 611, 624, 685; confront TEL 504–5

Faiz el Ghusein: early career 59, 176; at Rabegh 59; in Feisal’s camp at Yenbo 111, 113, 140; visits Nuri 176–7; at Wejh 229; in Lejah 434; preaching 773

Fakhri en din Pasha, Turkish Commander: at Medina 34, 77–8, 424; at Rabegh 79, 81; at Nakhl Mubarak 118, 123; (126, 152, 179, 424, 644)

Falkenhayn, General Erich von 373, 519

Fara 126

Faraifra 596; station destroyed 622; Turks counter-attack 623

Faris, Rualla sheikh 654, 714

Farraj: beaten by Saad 251, 252; becomes TEL’s servant 252; on march to Akaba 259, 269, 286, 289, 290, 335; dyes Yusuf’s camel 438; on railway raids 422, 437, 438, 439, 440, 459–60, 476; at Azrak 489, 581; on death of Daud 581–2; disguised as woman 595; death 597–8; his camel 598–9

Fasoa 421, 610

Fatima 66

Fatma river 14

Fauzan el Harith, Sherif 152, 202, 204, 205, 217, 562

Fawaz el Faiz, Beni Sakhr leader 624–5

fear 525, 550, 653, 751, 782

feasts and feasting 188–9, 224; Howeitat 282, 283–8, 290–1; with Auda and Nasir 296–9; Beni Sakhr 454; Serahin 461–2; at Themed 627–8

Feilding, Lieuenant The Hon. Everard F. 350

Feisal ibn Hussein, Sherif: appearance and dress 75–6, 82; nature 82–3; speech 111–12; character 112, 682; method of command 111–14, 128; appetite 113–14; ease 114; powers of judgement 178–9; relations with Hussein 352, 632, 698, 699, 702; relations with TEL 430–1, 703:
Life: early years in Constantinople 29–30, 82, 84; returns to Hejaz 30, 31, 84–5; fostering AR 31–4, 57; detained in Damascus 32–4, 664; starts AR at Medina 34, 77–80; camped in Jebel Subh 52, 53, 54; fighting at Kheif 70; meets Wilson 79; TEL first meets 75–6; TEL with at Hamra 75–6, 77–83, 85, 93–4; gives account of AR 77–80; as leader of AR 45, 83, 88–90, 223; saying farewell 94; camped in Wadi Yenbo 104, 105, 107–15; Wghting at Nakhl Mubarak 117, 118–19 ill.; at Yenbo 117–20, 123; army entering Yenbo ill.; plan to march on Wejh 122, 124–5, 126–9, 131–2; converts and collects tribes 124; returns to Nakhl Mubarak 124; evacuation of Yenbo 132–3; march resumed 142, 144–6; camped at Semna 146–7; on march 150, 162; camped at Gelib 150, 152, 155–9; tribes swear allegiance to 156–8, 175, 177, 178, 292–3; camped at Wejh 161, 162, 168, 170–81, 228–30, ill.; appoints Jaafar Commander-in-Chief 166, 699; and Brémond 168–9; and Nuri 176; and Auda 229; preaching 233, 619, 655–7; plans march to Akaba 240–1, 242; languages 247; transferred to Allenby’s command 350–1, 352, 700; TEL rejoins after Akaba victory 351; at Akaba 373, 379, 392, 417, 436; at Guweira 555, 556; at Akaba, Aug. 1918 576; at Waheida 602–3; at Aba el Lissan 610, 616–17, 630; after failure of Salt raid 612–13; spreads AR 619–20; and June 1918 plan 632; and plan for final assault on Deraa 649; at Jefer 653; in peace negotiations with Turkey 664–9; (686); resigns when Hussein denies Jaafar’s Generalship 698; drives through troops 701; supremacy restored 702–3; at Azrak 713, 715, 751, 752, 753, 757, 758; driven to Um el Surab 759; at Um el Surab 760; at Deraa 783; secret committee in Damascus 791, 795; government of to be set up in Damascus 798, 799, 802, 810; arrives at Damascus 810, ill.; meets Allenby 810

Fejr, Wadi 263, 265–6

Fejr district 176, 177, 240, 259; Beduin of 263; well 253, 265–6; Diary May. 1917 816

Ferhan el Aida, son of Motlog 194, 415

Fershah, el 215–16; Diary Apr. 1917 816

Fetah society 27, 28, 30, 624

fetishism 395

feuds 64–6, 184–5, 327–8, 360, 400, 466, 535, 771; composed by Feisal 178–9; settled by TEL 419; among TEL’s bodyguard 526

fever, TEL suffers 183–4, 189, 190, 191, 195, 199, 244, 249, 253; Beduin treatment of 190

fighting de luxe 518–19

finances: funds from Hussein 50, 78, 86, 89; wages 89, 447, 567–8, 657; funds from British 165, 526, 551, 555, 556, 567–8, 576, 633; ‘promises to pay’ notes 329, 347; trade 619; at Damascus 801

firewood (fuel) 68, 155, 248, 251, 269, 398, 417; 627; for railway 424

fish: as 'mean' food 158; at Hamdh 225; bombed 338–9; shot 695

Fitenna tribe 283

Fitzmaurice, Captain R., RN: sets up wireless station 174

flies 133, 192, 689, 695; camel- 707, 713; horse- 707–8, 712

Foch, Ferdinand 103, 191, 192, 193–4, 197, 544, 546, 709

food and drink: dough kneaded 68, 70; carried in desert 70, 241–2, 247, 341, 369, 467, 477; shot in desert 70, 150, 187, 266, 269, 414, 466; in Feisal’s camps 113–14, 137; considered mean 158; at Wejh 173; bully beef 201, 380, 440–1, 516; in spring 224; camels killed for 248–9, 250, 319, 369, 477, 645; in Nasir’s camp 252, 301; samh 271–2, 442; seethed camel-calf 299; parched-corn in desert 309–10; sheep stolen and eaten 316; supply caravans 319, 488, 489; in Akaba 338–9; of Sherarat 442; of Serahin 461–2; Indians’ diet 477, 488, 489; at Azrak 488; TEL’s habits 527; Syrian, booty from raid 532; in Tafileh 536; army rations 645, 649, 675, 676–7, 696, 723, 760; Egyptian Army 723; booty from Mezerib raid 731; in Damascus army store-houses 800; see also alcohol; coffee; dates; eating manners; eggs; feasts and feasting; gazelle; hunger; milk; tea; thirst; vegetable crops; water
footwear 210; going barefoot 91, 210, 540, 541, 553, 554, 558

Foreign Office, British 43, 633, 810

Foweida clan of Juheina 157

Fox, HMS 136, 162

France: colonial policy 6, 238, 383, 436; and Sykes–Picot Agreement 122–3, 666; attitude to AR 122, 165, 418; policy towards Syria 122, 365

free-will 587–8

French, the 123

French Military Mission in Hejaz 42, 99, 121, 202

French North Africa 238

French troops: at Suez 99, 121; at Akaba 418

Fura, Wadi 62–3, 81

futility 661–2

Fuweilah fort 319, 320–1, 322, 329, 558; Diary July 1917 817