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M. 31 (naval monitor) 120

Maan 167, 175, 179, 236; station 239; plans to attack 240; (265, 278); Turkish garrison 305; roads blocked 317; (318, 319, 321, 328);  troops from 322; Arabs threaten 329; Turks defend 340; bombed 355, 375; Turks make special command 373–4; Turks operating from 514; winds 559; plans to attack 573, 574, 576, 578, 583; besieged 583, 614, 618, 620, 621, 631, 638, 692; station attacked 603–4

Maaza tribe 556

Mabeiuk hills 343

MacIndoe, Captain J. D. 5, 570

MacRury 179

Madahrij station 212–15, 216

Madeba 511, 539, 567, 573; Arab Regulars to move to 574; Mirzuk to hold 580; Faiz Beni Sakhr to move to 592; TEL visits 632; assault planned 711

Madsus village 116

Mafrak station 309, 466, 470, 714; raid near 751–2; bombed 760; attempt to attack 762; bombed 763; Turkish cavalry marches from 765

Magrah Raal 154; Diary Apr. 1917 816

Mahamid clan: at Wasit 130–1

Mahan, Alfred Thayer 103

Mahmas 550

Mahmud II, Sultan of Turkey 35

Mahmud, doctor, 244, 245, 602

Mahmud of Turra, member of TEL’s bodyguard 436, 487, 489; at Nisib 743

Mahmud Shefket 56

Maigua, Wadi Sirhan 274, 276

Majalli sheikhs 566

Majid ibn Sultan 714

Malcolm, Neil 39

Malory, Thomas: Morte d’Arthur 99, 549, 658

Mamelukes 95, 129, 372

Mania, Jebel 786, 787, 792

Marawin clan 158

Mared, Wadi 69

mares 171, 172, 178, 208, 223, 283

markets: camel- 16, 573; Wejh 171, 245, 252, 297, 299; Jebel Shammar 276–7

Marmaris (Turkish gunboat) 134

Maronite sect 359, 360

Marrakh, Wadi 186–7

marriage 10, 563

Marshall, Major W. E., RAMC 5; character 712; at Akaba 521, 523–4; driving car 556; (568, 605, 621, 622); takes Hallat Amar 643; with ICC 650; at Mudowwara 662; at Bair 676, 696; (703, 712, 713, 751); Azrak hospital 752–3; (765)

Masahali, Wadi Yenbo 123 

Masri, Wadi el 342

Masruh Harb clan 52, 60, 63; at Masturah well 64–6, 68, 79

Mastur, Sherif: sent to Fagair 180; at Guweira 383, 384, 386; (511, 515); at Tafileh 534, 535, 543; (600)

Masturah plain 62, 63–5, 67–9

Masturah well 63–5

Matar, the Hesseni 437, 486, 488

Maulud el Mukhlus: character 128–9; in Turkish army 77, 558; Feisal’s ADC 77, 81–2, 83, 90, 108; mounted unit under 128–9, 140, 147, 162; governor of Wejh 162; attacks railway 231; on march to Akaba 244, 245; at Petra 374–5, 512; defends Wadi Musa 425; drives Turks from Aba el Lissan 514; (531, 554); at Fuweilah 558; (583); wounded 600–1, 602, 647

Maxwell, Sir John Grenfell 41, 238

Maynard, Major P. G. W., Royal Irish Rifles 5, 580, 603

McMahon, Sir Henry: negotiates with Hussein 39, 41; dispute with MID 41–2, 43, 98; dismissed 8, 99, 167

Mecca, holy Islamic city 15; rule of 29; and Turkey 29; pilgrimage to 30, 66, 97; on outbreak of WWI 30; French Military Mission in 42; under Arab rule, 1916 51, 52, 55–6; Palace band 55–6; Abdulla el Nahabi in 522; strategic status 634

Medain Salih 232, 422

Meddan, Wadi 733

medical treatment, Beduin: for fever 190; for snake-bite 289; for wounds 486

Medina, holy Islamic city: AR planned at 31, 33; Jemal and Enver review troops 33; first battle of AR 34, 66, 77–8, (Awali sacked by Turks 78), 156; Fakhri at 34, 77–8, 424; held by Turks 42, 52, 54, 81, 122, 126, 151, 153, 174, 191–2, 232, 233; Arabs blockade 104–5; Arab troops recalled 124; Eshref exiled in 151; Turks plan to abandon 179–80, 181, 201, 223; TEL thinks better to leave Turks in 191–2, 233; Allies wish to take 237; Nasir’s home 243; Turkish garrison maintained at 519; prison 522; Arab troops at 631; besieged 632; (665)

Meinertzhagen, Major Richard 428–9, 637

Mejaber: valley 465, 674; springs 673; cemetery 694, 695; ridge 707

Meleager 434

melons 74, 343, 770

Menippus 434

Merawin clan 180, 181, 186

Merjan, Ageyli 242

Mertaha, the 451

Meseij, Wadi 202; Diary Mar. 1917 816

Mesmiyeh 784

Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 17; under Turkish rule 24, 26, 30; outbreak of WWI 30; beginnings of Arab Independence Movement in 39; British in, 1915–16 39–40, 41; and Syria 365; British troops in, Sept. 1917 441; Arabs in, Sept. 1917 441; see also place names

Messarih, Wadi 117, 132–3

Messudyieh 638, 664, 713

Metaab bin Atban bin Jazi 536, 538, 542–3

Metawala people 359 

Methar, Wadi 225

Mezerib 494, 723, 724, 726, 727, 728; bodyguard arrives at 729; French station taken 729–30; Turkish station taken 730–1; camp at 736, 737; railway line mined 737; water-tower blown up 738; (781, 782, 783); Diary Sept. 1918 820

Mezraa port raided 547; Diary Jan. 1918 818

Mifleh el Gomaan of Beni Sakhr: entertains TEL’s party at Bair 452–5; agrees to join Deraa raid 455; and ancestral tomb 456; on railway raids 459, 462, 465, 467, 470–4, 484–5, 486, 511, 513, 591; rivalry with Fahad 611

Mifleh el Hansha 157

Mifleh ibn Bani 462

Mijbil, Biasha; rescues Salem 415; (437, 449)

Mijbil, Haurani 493, 494–5, 501

Mijhem Shaalan 629, 654

Mijz 124, 131

Milif, Wadi 67, 69–71

military exhaustion, Turkish 35–6

Military Intelligence Department, Cairo 39, 41–3, 69, 88, 94; Arab Bureau 43, 99; TEL reports to on Rabegh question 99–101; TEL sent back to Arabia 103; (165, 166, 169); TEL reports taking of Akaba 347–9; British GHQ (Oct. 1917 423–5), (on Allenby’s arrival 427)

military service 788–9; payment 89, 657; see also uniform, military

military theory 103, 191, 192–4, 195–201, 232, 328–9, 341, 709–10; see also names of authors

milk 186, 224; camels’ 188, 189

Minerva, HMS 125

mines 310, 402–9, 418–23, 478–84; tulips 724–6, 737

Minifir: railway raids 307, 309–13, 478–85; train mined 483–5; Diary June 1917 817; Nov. 1917 818

mirage 270, 272, 273, 288, 320, 321, 342, 420, 673, 696, 724

Mirzuk: summoned to Aba el Lissan 377; sent to Madeba 580; rides with TEL 589, 590, 591,594, 596; (610, 611, 612, 615, 638)

Mirzuk el Tikheimi, Feisal’s guest- master: reports rout of Zeid 111; brings clansmen to Feisal 157; (158, 172)

Miskin 494, 770, 773, 775, 778; Diary Sept. 1918 820

Mismah 280

Mithgal, head of Faiz Beni Sakhr 459, 505, 592, 611

Mitla hills 343

Miya, Wadi 157, 160

Moab Hills 537, 547, 611

Moahib clan 157, 175, 176

modesty 678, 683

Modhig village 66

Mohammed, Agha Khan 358

Mohammed Abu Tayi, son of Auda Abu Tayi 229, 302, 385

Mohammed Ali Abu Sharrain 148, 152

Mohammed Ali ibn Beidawi, Emir of the Juheina Beidawi 94, 118; in Yenbo 97; (123, 222); on march 144–5, 146–7; (158); at Dhaba 175–6, 180; at Mudowwara 555

Mohammed el Dheilan, cousin of Auda: character and appearance 278, 299; career 278; at Wejh 229; on march to Akaba 247, 276, 278, 279, 284, 286, (Auda tells story against 297–9), (gives breakfast to camp 299), 301–2, 318; in battle 327–8; negotiates with Turks 352, 353–4; camped with Auda 447, 448; in Dead Sea campaign 610; (657, 714); at Damascus 794–5

Mohammed el Kahdi: on railway raids 202, 203, 206–7; sent with TEL to Feisal 222–3, 224–5, 226–7; mother 224; at Wejh camp 228

Mohammed el Nasir 208, 214, 215

Mohammed Hassan: tormented by Abdulla and friends 194, 217

Mohammed ibn Ghasib 545

Mohammed ibn Jebarra 157

Mohammed ibn Shefia 113, 157

Mohammed ibn Zari of Jauf 287

Mohammed of Kiswi: joins TEL’s bodyguard 242; (269, 270, 300, 327, 381, 395); rested 437; (596, 622)

Mohammed Said, Emir: accident-prone 453; sent by Jemal to Feisal 668; at Damascus 791, 794, 798–9, 803

Mohammedans: in Syria 358, 359, 360, 362, 363, 365, 366; see also Islam

Mohsin, of TEL’s bodyguard 597, 598

Mohsin, Sherif, of the Harith 66

Mohsin, Sherif, of the Masruh Harb 70

Mojeb valley 567, 626–7, 628; Diary June 1918 819

Moltke, Helmuth, Count von 191

monarchy, English 218

monotheism 17–23, 395

Monreale castle 534, 561, 562

morale 83–7

morality of battle 9–10

Moroccans 184–5

Morte d’Arthur (Malory) 99, 549

mosquitoes 707

Mosul, Mesopotamia 122

Motalga tribe: feud with Auda 302, 328; at Tafileh 534, 535, 539–40, 542, 543

Motlog el Awar 194, 342, 397

Motlog ibn Jemiaan, Sheikh 556–7, 566, 567, 643, 649, 650

motorcycles 173

motoring joyfulness 670–3, 674, 676

Moweilleh 178

Mreigha 514; spring 319–20, 322, 324, 327; Arabs take 329

Mteir, Sheikh 461–2, 464

Mteir desert 81

Muadhdham 180, 231, 256, 262; Kalaat el (castle) 180

Muaggar 690–3; Diary Aug. 1918 819

mud and cold 552–3

Mudowwara station: plans to attack 378, 379, 398–9; attack postponed 400–1; (404); patrol from 405, 408; wells 399, 414, 415, 417, (demolished 663); prospects for driving 416; expedition to 555; attacked 609–10; well 621, 643; (639, 640); Marshall plans to raid 643–4; ICC to raid 643, 649; taken 662–3; Diary Sept. 1917 817; May 1918 819

Mufaddhi 297–8, 354

Muhaidir 291

Muhaisin clan 535, 536

Muheiwir, the 458, 504

Mukheymer 242

mules: in Arab army 128–9, 140, 147; stampede 140; in Turkish army 311, 773; as booty 311

Murabba 190

murder 184–5

Murphy, Lieutenant Arthur W., Australian Flying Corps 708, 712, 716, 726

Murra, Jebel 226

Murra, Wadi 570; well 95

Murray, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald: personality 41, 347; General in Egypt 41; heads Intelligence department 42–3; (53, 98); interviews TEL 100–1; (121, 164, 166, 169, 200, 201); attacks Gaza 202, 237; (239, 340); raids Nekhl 238, 342; sent home 346–7, 427; second attack on Gaza 348

Murrmiya, Wadi 189, 190

Musa, Wadi 340, 356, 374, 424; attacked 425; Arab troops in 514, 515, 534; Diary Jan. 1918 818

Musa, watchman 417

Muscat 13

Mushagraf, Sherari boy 408

music 245–6; Hejaz brass band 55–6, 57, 58; see also songs

Musleh, cousin of Fahad 189

Musleimieh 156

Mustafa, member of TEL’s bodyguard 437, 472, 476, 487; punished 622

Mustapha Kemal Pasha 665, 668

myself 678–85