Winlock, Herbert E.: Excavations at Deir el Baḥri 1911-1931 (New York: by Macmillan Press, 1942)

SEASONS OF 1914-1919

The first World War broke out in 1914, and Egypt was no place
for a man with his wife and children. At first 1 worked in the Museum
in New York, and later 1 was in the American army. Meantime, H. G.
Evelyn White dug with a small gang in 1914-1915, for the most part
continuing a job which he and I had begun at the palace of Amen-
hotpe III.1 Afterwards he served in the British army until he was
invalided out, and then he began work on William G. Palmer-Jones’s
drawings of monasteries in the Wady en Natrun. During the second
year of the war Ambrose Lansing was sent out to Egypt to dig for
the Museum at Thebes. He dug out half of an enormous tomb which
lay on the border of our concession and that of Lord Carnarvon at
the foot of the fAsasif. In 1916-1917 Lansing cleared the festival hall
of the palace of Amen-hotpe III; in 1917-1918 he dug at the South
Pyramid at Lisht; and in 1918-1919 he cleared the tomb of Pebes in
the Theban necropolis.2 In this year he also did a small job in the
cliffs to the west of the tomb of Meket-ReC Particularly this last
excavation was so lucky that when 1 got to Egypt very early in 1920
our thoughts naturally went to the west. Lansing had a few more
days of work in the valley where the royal cache had been found years
before, and when that was finished I took over the men.

1 White, Bulletin, X (1915), p. 253.
2 Lansing, Bulletin, XII (1917), May, Sup-pl., p. 7; XIII (1918), March, Suppl., p. 8;
XV (1920), July, II, p. 3; December, II, p. 4.