tactics see strategy and tactics

Tadmor 17, 306

Tafas village 494, 774; taken by Turks 775; Arabs find bodies 775–6; Arabs take revenge 777–8; (780, 805)

Tafileh village 278, 301, 304, 511; attack planned 513, 515; Nasir takes 534–5; Arabs occupy 535–7; Turks counter-attack 537–41; battle in el Hesa 541–6; subsequently, winter in 548–51, 553, 581; TEL brings gold to 565, 566, 567–9; Turks retake 576; Arabs retake 580; (671, 692, 701, 721); Diary Jan., Feb. 1918 818

Taher 797–8

Tahsin 647

Taif 16, 53; band captured at 55; guns captured at 105; siege of 131, 220

Taif, cousin of Feisal 108

Taiyibe, Wadi 493, 718, 737, 764, 766

Taiyibe village 721; TEL visits malcontents 744–5; fire on Allies 746; at risk 749; recompensed 751

Talaat Pasha, Mehmed 27, 30, 56, 665 

Talal el Hareidhin, Sheikh of Tafas 431, 433; career 493; joins TEL 493–4; (646); at Azrak 714; at Mezerib 730; at Nisib 743; Um el Surab 757, 760; (764, 765, 766, 768); takes Ezraa 769, 771; (772, 773); returns to Tafas 774, 775, 776; rides after Turks 776–7; death 777, 778

Talbot Battery 173, 517–18, 606

tamarisk trees 250, 276, 277, 279, 280, 291, 292, 387–8, 440, 507, 672, 673, 714; as fuel 251, 398; road laid with 516

Taraba valley 15

Tareif Beni Ayub 62, 67

Tarfa, Beni Sakhr woman 458

Tasha Pass 124

taxation 242; tax-gatherers 691

tea: Arabs’ 113, 114, 284, (fauzan 562); Indian 444; British Army 674, (boiled in desert 697), 758, 760

Tebuk village 175, 176, 179, 263, 265, 280, 377; Turks in 410, 532, 650

Tehama desert 61–6, 67–8, 91, 96, 106, 153

Teima 17, 131, 265

Tekrit 77

telephone: Hussein uses 55–6, 58, 634; Abdulla el Nahabi first encounters 523

Telesius 507

Tell Arar (Khuman) 494, 713, 718; railway damaged 722–3, 724; (727, 728, 737); German plane crash 758; (770)

Tell el Shehab: village 462, 732, (young sheikh 732–3, 734–5, 736); bridge 447, 465; raid on 468, 473–5, 476, (711, 731), (Sept. 1918 attempt on 732–5); railway 726, 730, 734–5, (cut 736); waterfall 472–3, 733–4; (782); Diary Nov. 1917 818

Tell Khuman see Tell Arar

Tell Shahm station 517; attacked 518–19; (605, 606); destroyed 607–8; Diary Dec. 1917 818; Apr. 1918 819

Temimi tribe 150–1

tents: at Nakhl Mubarak 110; Feisal’s 111, 113–14, 147, 170, ill.; of Ibrahim Pasha 146; at Wejh 170–2; feasting in 283–8; Auda’s 292; pitching 299–300; E.P.I.P. tent (European Purpose Indian Pattern) 447

Tewfik, Port 344

Tewfik Bey 111, 134

Tewfik el Halabi 140–1, 142, 242

Themed wells 238, 342, 355, 591, 593, 611, 626; TEL at 627–8; Diary June 1918 819

thirst 187, 272–3, 275, 312, 324, 336; endurance 317, 527

thistles 769

Thlaithukhwat peaks 300, 302, 456, 504, 670, 671, 695; Diary Aug. 1918 819

Thomas, C. W. RASC (HACC) 516

thorn-scrub 249, 256

Thorne (trooper with Lloyd): on railway raid 438–40, 445, 446; photographed on camel 449

Thrace 35

tides of wandering 16–17

time, concept of 147

Times, The 58

Timurs 23

Tleih, Wadi 190, 224; Diary Mar. 1917 816

tobacco 532; see also smoking

Togatga clan 390, 397, 603, 610

tools, primitive 316

Towala wells 141, 157

Towana 534

Toweiha 230–1, 276, 390; dispute wages 447; (448, 585

Toweira station 188

towns: grossness 22; syrian 361–3

Townshend, General Charles V. 40

Trad, nephew of Nuri Shaalan 317; at Jefer 654; at Azrak 714; on railway raid 722; at Deraa 779

Trad ibn Nuweiris of Beni Sakhr 459, 599

Trad of the Mor: at Kerak 625–6; rides with TEL on reconnaissance 625–8; (632, 711)

trade: Wadi Safra 74; at Akaba 619; see also markets

Traill, pilot 757–8

transport see aeroplanes; camels; cars; railways

travel permits for Allied troops 345–6

treachery 117, 293–5, 352–5

trees: for firewood 68; cleared for aerodrome 110–11; Shejerat el Tayar 622; sidr 202, 205; see also tamarisk

tribes, Arab: punishments 11, 335, 466, 529–30, 550–1, 622; wandering 16–17; law 51; jealousies, distrust and disputes 51, 64–6, 86, 90, 178–9, 184–5, 341, 370, 379, 390, 397, 400, (settled by TEL 419); sheikhs 89–90; Sherifs 90; poets 114; genealogy 114, 457, 655; swear allegiance to Feisal 156–8, 175, 178, 292–3; feuds 184–5, 327–8, 400, 466, 535, (composed by Feisal 178–9), 771; dialects 247, 277, 439; marching 288–9, 769; nationalism 356; boundaries 379; sense of direction 743; see also Arab forces / Tribal; raiding parties; names of tribes

Tripoli 13, 35, 92, 165, 359, 808

Tuba 689

Tubaik, Jebel 233, 267, 280, 447

Tubja, Wadi 209, 210–12

Tul Keram 637, 641

tulip mines 724–6, 737

Tullibardine, William Murray, Marquis of 169

Tulul el Shebb 264

Turaa, Wadi 202; Diary Mar. 1917 816

Turkestan 665

Turkey: in WWI 27, 238; decay, 1915 35; military exhaustion 35–6; in Sykes–Picot Agreement 122, 666; peace negotiations, 1918 664–9; see also Ottoman Empire

Turki, son of Mifleh 455, 456, 458–9; character 455; at mining of train 483, 485

Turki, Beni Sakhr sheikh 591–2, 593

Turkish army 196, 197, 371; in Mesopotamia 39; Arab Divisions 28, 31; Arab nationalists in 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 39, 40, 58, 558; at Dardanelles 31; reviewed, 1915 33, 34; exhaustion 35–6; ill-health 36; prisoners from 36, 128, 131, 234, 311, 312–13, 320, 329, 330, 332, 334,  338, (officers 333, 339), 351, (farmed out to villages 771, 773); sack Awali 78; treatment of prisoners by 89, 413, 598, 690; Jan. 1917 condition 126; deserters from 128, 166, 310–11, 313, 424; 489; defeated at Wejh 160, 161; Jaafar Pasha in 165–6; and Akaba 236–7; stupidity 305; at Minifir, pass unchallenged 311; oYcers 313, (as prisoners 333, 339); dead soldiers 331; after Arabs take Akaba 373–5; sexual abuse in 497; discipline 585; July 1918 636; move south to TaWleh 706–7, 711; cavalry available 708; at Tafas 775; pursued from Tafas 776–8:
Sections: German units 580; Fourth Army 737, 753, 760, 762, 764, 765, 766, 773–4 (retreat from Deraa 778–9, 786, 787–8); Seventh 774; Eighth Corps 484; Twelfth Corps 34; 48th Division 537; 55th Regiment 131

Turkish language 626–7

Turkish Navy 547

Turkish parliament 30, 32, 82

Turkish revolution 25–6; see also Young Turks  

Turks 35–6; rule Arabs 23–9, 30, 31–4, 37, 50–1; and Akaba 236–40; Howeitat negotiate with 353; govern Syria 356–61, 362, 364, 366; Arabs’ opinion of 404, 457–8; TEL’s opinion of 683

Turra village 436, 475

Turton, Captain: takes Kunfida 58–9; commands Northbrook 58–9

typhus 408

tyres, for armoured cars 675, 685, 695, 696, 697