i) typescript lecture notes on the "10th Cav. Bde. (4th Cav. Div.) in final operation of the Campaign in Palestine and Syria", providing a summary of events from 19 September to 6 October 1918, during and after the Battle of Megiddo, including the Charge at Irbid, as the Indian cavalry pursued the retreating Turkish armies through Syria, with conclusions ("...success met with in striking sufficiently deep behind enemy armies and the value of surprise in a boldly conceived plan..."), 13 pages, folio, 5 pages with autograph annotations and revisions, 1920s, in plain manila wrappers, wrappers frayed
ii) typescript carbon copy account of operations against the Hejaz railway south of Damascus and the taking of Dara'a, south of Damascus from 19 to 28 September 1918, IN THE COMPANY OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, referring to Lawrence's concern about the theft of a flag of the Arab Revolt, describing the mistreatment of Turkish prisoners and the desolate scene on the road from Dera'a to Damascus ("...Clumps of dead Turks and horses lay every few hundred yards. The Turks had mostly been murdered and stripped by Arabs when then slept exhausted (without food or water). All the horses had patches of hide cut off them and these pieces of hide had been bound round the bare feet of Turks afters their boots had given out..."), 11 pages, folio, c.1929
iii) typescript carbon copy account of the charge at Irbid on 26 September 1918, 2 pages, folio, dated 26 September 1929, pinned
iv) two copies of a typescript headed "Events leading up to Arab attack on SEMAKH - at the Southern end of the Lake of Gallilee - on April 24th 1920", describing an attack by c.800 Arab irregular forces on the garrisoned village of Samakh, which was repelled with the use of machine guns and aircraft, comprising one extensively corrected draft in blue ink and one carbon copy of a revised text with one autograph addition, altogether 13 pages, folio, c.1929, pinned
v-ix) Five letters, including: a letter to Hutchison whilst on active service, from his father, wondering if he is "now in Damascus", 4 pages, 8vo, 4 October 1918, with envelope; autograph letter signed, by Hutchison, to his mother, explaining that he is involved in an operation to extend the Palestinian border "to prevent anti-Jewish raids being made by the Arabs", 8 pages, 8vo, Palestine, 2 August 1920; and three others

John Robert Hutchison (1883-1960) was an officer in the Central Indian Horse, a cavalry regiment in the Indian Army which in 1918 joined the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under Allenby, fighting alongside the forces of the Arab Revolt. Hutchison records the final battles that opened the route to Damascus, including his entrance into the strategic town of Dara's shortly after the Arab forces:

"...No information concerning Col. Lawrence's Arab Force having entered DERAA was communicated to units by the Brigade, with the result that a patrol of 'B' Squadron on entering the town - saw a suspicious looking Arab who afterwards turned out to be a British officer of Lawrence's Force [...] one of the Sikhs 🧜shouted 'German' and pursued the officer with his lance. The latter just managed to take refuge in a house. The Sikh had dismounted and drawn his rifle preparatory to going in after his - when 'British Officer' - 'Ingles' etc. was shouted out of the window..."

Hutchison had a low opinion of Arab forces, accusing them of "abominable" cruelty to the defeated Turks, and of Lawrence and other officers as "masguerading as 'Sheiks' [sic]". His comments may have been motivated in part, however, by Lawrence's disparaging comments about the Indian Caval🅰ry. Hutchison's regiment remained in Palestine after the end of the war and he was awarded the DSO for commanding the defence of Se𓆏makh against Bedouin in 1920.