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Jaafar Pasha: career 165–6; Feisal appointed Arab Army Commander 166, 699; (351); at Akaba 373, 513; at Tafileh 536, 537; in Feb. 1918 plans 580, 583, 584; attacks Jerdun 601; at Semna 603; attacks Maan 603–5, 610; awarded C.M.G. 647; command repudiated by Hussein  698; resigns 698; achievement as Arab Army Commander 699–700; Sept. 1918 753

Jaala, El 268;Diary May. 1917 816

Jabar, Sherif 142

Jaffa 613

Jaraman 804

Jasim hill 210

Jauf 176, 177, 240, 265, 274

Jaulan region of Yarmuk valley 435–6, 462, 464, 465

Java 15

Jazi Howeitat clan: at Wejh 178; feud with Auda 230; well at Bair 303, 318; (504); join AR 515; at Tafileh 534, 535, 536, 542, 567; at Wadi Jinz 671

Jebel (hill): place names beginning Jebel are entered under the second element

Jeddah see Jidda

Jedida village 72

Jefer, plain 240, 303, 304; wells exploded 305, 317–18; repaired 318–19; (319–20, 347); Auda camped at 447–50, 506, 513; Nasir camped at 513, 533; winds 533; (652); Feisal and TEL with the Rualla at 653–7; (669, 676, 677, 696); Diary June, Oct. 1917 817; Nov. 1917 818; Aug. 1918 819

Jehad (Holy War) 28–9, 30, 33, 92

Jeida 180, 351; Diary July 1917 817

Jemajem well 291

Jemal (Lawrence refers mainly to Jemal Pasha, one of the principal Turkish leaders, who commanded  the Turkish Fourth Army and was Governor and C-in-C of Syria. However, some references may be to Jemal Pasha Kuchuk (‘the Lesser’) or to Mehmed Jemal, a Turkish commander at Maan): represses Arab nationalism 27–8, 30, 32, 85, 435; detains Feisal in Damascus 32, 33–4; message intercepted 179; and Auda 230; (424); attacks Wadi Musa 424, 425; on mined train 484, 486, 495; receives Abd el Kader 502–3; in Salt 593; relieves Maan 605; peace negotiations 664–7; on train to Palestine 726; at Tafas 775, 777

Jemil, gunner 601, 713, 762; at Damascus 798

Jemil, Prince 763

Jerablus village 357

Jerba 600

Jerdun station 589; Jaafar takes 601–2; Jemal attacks 605; further attacks 610, 619; Arabs take 619

Jericho: plans to take 511–12; held by Turks 567; taken by British 571; (631); dummy camp in valley 637; (711)

Jerjer hamlet 293

Jerusalem 361; population 360; mediaeval 365; Christianity 394; Oct. 1917 423; Nov. 1917 428, 430; (480); fall 508; British entry 508, 510; administration 510; Beni Sakhr chiefs at 611; TEL in 612; Diary Feb. 1918 818; May 1918 819

Jesha, Wadi 457, 671, 672, 674, 695

Jews 358, 359–60, 361, 363, 394

Jezaa Abu Shaama 178

Jidda 15, 46, 47; described 54–5; French Military Mission 42; Storrs and TEL at 43, 47–54, 55–8; TEL returns to 98; Hussein with TEL at 351–2; TEL telephones Hussein from 634; Diary July, Aug. 1917 817; June 1918 819

Jidhwa 183

Jinz, Wadi el 591, 599, 670; Diary Apr. 1918 818

Jirzil valley 209

Jisr Benat Yakub 773

Jizil, Wadi 249, 250, 253, 256

Jomini, Antoine-Henri de 103, 191

Jordan Valley 236, 357; population 359, 361; plan to take 511–12; TEL rides to 567; Turks reopen fords 612; Allenby’s bridgehead 614; filled with sham troops 637, 710; (723)
journalists: at Damascus 203–4

Joyce, Lieutenant-Colonel Pierce C., Connaught Rangers 5; character 349, 648; career 349; at Rabegh 125; appointed commanding officer at Akaba 349, 373; at Akaba 373, 507, 513, 531; expeditions in armoured cars 515–16, 518–19; at Guweira 555; at Tafileh 568–9, 580, 583; ill 583–4, 603; at Aba el Lissan 617–18, 640, 642–4, (plan for raiding Deraa 640–2, 644), 644, 646–7, 648, 657; armoured car expedition 669, 670–7; at Azrak fort 674; (697); at Aba el Lissan 703; at Azrak base 712; on railway raids 717–18, 719–20; (726); at Tell Arar 728, 737; at Umtaiye base 744, 746, 747, 751; at Azrak 753; (767)

Judea 360, 533

Judean hills 508

Juheina tribe 81, 90, 93, 105, 112; Sherifs escort TEL to Yenbo 94–7; at Nakhl Mubarak 116, 118–19; sent back to Wadi Yenbo 119, 121, 123; ordered to Wasit 123–4; ibn Bedawi seeks leadership 123–4; Feisal converts 124; clans 157; see also Beni Ibrahim Juheina, Rifaa Juheina

Junor, Flight-Lieutenant Hugh: at Akaba 712, 713; solo aerial combat 726–8; in raid on Kilo. 149 bridge 746–7; attacks Turkish aerodrome 747–8; on railway raids 728, 751–2

Jurf, el 202–3, 623, 638; Diary Mar. 1917 816; June 1918 819

Jurf el Derawish station 513, 515; raided 531–3, 623; Tel at 629; Diary Apr. 1918 818