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R. M. P. (Richard Martin Peter) Preston
1884–1965
A British cavalry officer and military historian, he is best known for The Desert Mounted Corps, a firsthand account of mounted operations in Palestine and Syria during the First World War. His writing brings campaign history close to the ground, with the feel of someone who understood both the strategy and the soldiers.
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The Desert Mounted Corps An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria 1917-1918
by R. M. P. (Richard Martin Peter) Preston
About the author
Born in 1884, Richard Martin Peter Preston was a British Army officer who wrote under the name R. M. P. Preston. Contemporary library and catalog records identify him as Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. R. M. P. Preston, D.S.O., and connect him with The Desert Mounted Corps: An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria, 1917–1918, first published in 1921.
That book remains the work he is best known for. Rather than a broad general history of the war, it focuses closely on the mounted campaign in the Middle East, giving readers a detailed account of cavalry operations in Palestine and Syria during 1917 and 1918.
Preston died in 1965. Although biographical information about him is relatively limited in the sources readily available online, his book has endured as a valued record of the Desert Mounted Corps and the campaigns it fought.