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H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

b. 1879

A British Army officer turned his firsthand knowledge of the First World War in Palestine into a brisk, readable campaign history. His surviving work is valued for its clear sense of place, movement, and military detail.

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With the British Army in The Holy Land

With the British Army in The Holy Land

by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

About the author

Little is firmly documented online about this author beyond his published record, but available catalog and text sources identify him as Henry Osmond Lock, born in 1879, and as Major H. O. Lock of the Dorsetshire Regiment.

He is best known for With the British Army in the Holy Land (1919), a concise history of the Palestine campaign of the First World War. The book presents the campaign in a direct, practical style that reflects military experience, with attention to terrain, logistics, and the day-to-day realities of the fighting.

Because reliable biographical material appears to be scarce, it is safest to remember him primarily through that book: an officer-writer who helped record an important part of the war in the Middle East soon after it ended.