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which they enfiladed the Turks in the Citadel," and shortly afterwards the 10th Squadron, with a troop of the 8th Squadron, attacked and captured the Citadel, while the 5th Light Horse Regiment was "hunting out snipers and capturing prisoners," and the Auckland and Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiments continued their advance towards the Wadi Amman, where they were reinforced by the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment, who had advanced through the town centre. At the Wadi Amman, 1,700 prisoners surrendered. The railway station was captured at 16:39, along with many more prisoners, a wireless station, and great quantities of stores and war material. The attacking force's systematic methods of "galloping to points of vantage and bringing fire to bear on the flanks of such machine gun nests", combined with quick outflanking of machine guns eventually won all obstacles, and broke the opposition.
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prisoners, fifty-seven guns and 147 machine guns captured. The ANZAC Mounted Division had captured Amman and 2,500-2,563 prisoners, three hundred sick, ten guns, of which three were heavy, and twenty-five machine guns. The 1st Light Horse Brigade held the Amman railway station area, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade held the area to the south, and the 2nd Light Horse Brigade bivouacked on the western slope of Hill 3039. The 20th Indian Brigade, along with the 18th Royal Horse Artillery Brigade and 1st Battalion British West Indies Regiment, were ordered to march to Amman. The 39th Royal Fusiliers were left at Suweileh to take over the occupation of Es Salt. The 38th and 39th Battalions Royal Fusiliers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Patterson, had concentrated at the Auja bridgehead ready to follow the 20th Indian Brigade to Shunet Nimrin.
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Horse Brigade came up on their right and one regiment of the 1st Light Horse Brigade, sent at 10:00 to reinforce the left flank of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, came under Meldrum's command. The Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment was able to advance half an hour later, on the right of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, with the 2nd Light Horse Brigade on their left and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade reported at 11:10 that they were ready to gallop part of the defences, but the only way forward was between two hills strongly defended by machine guns. Both brigades continued to press the attack on these Ottoman advance posts, closely supported by their mountain guns eventually forcing the Ottoman soldiers in these advanced posts to retire back to their main line of defence, which was also strongly supported by machine guns.
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road with their left flank guarded by the 1st Light Horse Brigade, in reserve. Divisional headquarters was quickly established at 07:45 on Hill 3040 near Amman and by 08:30 the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade were attacking two hundred Ottoman soldiers armed with rifles and machine guns, holding a ridge to the north west of Amman. Movement was observed on Hill 3039 on the other side of Amman. Two batteries of small guns and a number of machine guns deployed in several Ottoman rearguard posts four miles (6.4 km) from the Amman delayed the 2nd Light Horse Brigade which eventually captured 106 prisoners and four machine guns after vigorous fighting.
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leading regiment, the 5th Light Horse Regiment (2nd Light Horse Brigade). At noon the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment advanced mounted towards Amman, but they were stopped by fire from concealed machine guns on the Citadel. Meanwhile, fighting in the streets by the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment was progressing by 13:30, and the leading regiment of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade; the 5th Light Horse Regiment had entered the southern part of the town. At 14:30, a second regiment of 1st Light Horse Brigade was ordered to reinforce the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade's left.
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Chaytor to pause on 24 September to wait for supplies as well. During the day the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade occupied Suweile and one hundred men from the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment took 11 hours to ride twenty miles (32 km), cut the railway five miles (8.0 km) north of Amman and return to Suweile. Accompanied by four officers, the raiding group carrying nothing but tools and weapons, advanced twelve miles (19 km) to the railway, where they took out a section of the Hedjaz line five miles (8.0 km) north of Amman near Kalaat ez Zerka station.
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road was captured early in the morning of 22 September by Meldrum's Force which included the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and the British West Indies Regiment. Subsequently, an attack on the Ottoman garrison holding the bridge at Damieh by the Auckland and Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiments supported by a battalion of the British West Indies Regiment forced the defenders to retreat in disorder, when the bridge was captured intact.
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Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade garrison by 07:00. If the attackers found Amman was lightly held, they were to strongly assault the place, but if Amman was held in strength the assault on the city was to be deferred until the infantry arrived; only the outlying or forward trenches were to be attacked while artillery was to bombard the place, and all lines of retreat northwards were to be cut. Aerial bombing of Amman was requested.
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managed to escape on foot or horse towards Deraa and Damascus. Two days later, aircraft directed the 1st Light Horse Brigade to the location of the Ottoman force on 27 September, and then machine gunned the enemy, when the successful attack by the light horsemen captured three hundred prisoners and two machine guns. By evening, the light horse brigade held the water at Wadi el Hamman, while one regiment occupied
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Hejaz Railway, was reported to be thirty miles (48 km) south of Amman on the evening of 25 September, advancing quickly north towards Chaytor's Force. The 5th Light Horse Regiment meanwhile had reached three miles (4.8 km) north of Ziza at 10:30, on 28 September where the Ottoman II Corps surrendered.
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A Fourth Army column seen at Mafrak, north of Amman in the early morning of 25 September was bombed by Australian aircraft which also destroyed the railway station, a long train and several dumps, blocking the line. The survivors were forced to abandon their wheeled-transport, and only a few thousand
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The EEF became aware of the withdrawal of the Fourth Army at 23:35 on 22/23 September, when orders were issued for an attack on Shunet Nimrin, Kabr Mujahid and Tel er Ramr. This was to be carried out by the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and mobile sections of the 20th Indian Brigade, a group that consisted
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Chaytor took command of the Jordan Valley garrison on 5 September 1918. The right sector was held by the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and the 20th Indian Brigade while the left sector held by the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and the 1st and 2nd Battalions British
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prior to the Battle of Megiddo on 19 September began at a point on the Mediterranean coast about twelve miles (19 km) north of Jaffa, to the north of Arsuf, ran about fifteen miles (24 km) south east across the Plain of Sharon, then east over the Judean Hills for about another fifteen miles
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and sections of the Seventh Army defending Nablus, during the afternoon of 19 September once it became apparent the Battle of Sharon was succeeding, while Chaytor's Force held the extreme right flank in the Jordan Valley against the Fourth Ottoman Army and began their attacks northwards in the Jordan
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The 2nd Battalion British West Indies Regiment, reinforced by the 3rd Light Horse Regiment (1st Light Horse Brigade), captured the Ottoman rearguard covering the Mafid Jozele ford, despite having encountered a number of Ottoman soldiers withdrawing across the ford. Mafid Jozele was captured by 05:50
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All of the supplies and reinforcements for the Ottoman Fourth Army force which had faced the EEF garrison occupying the Jordan Valley came through Amman. Now the Hejaz railway was the main line of retreat for the Fourth Army, for the Amman and Ma'an garrisons and the southern Hejaz railway garrison.
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Chaytor's mounted rifle and light horse brigades began their advance on Amman at 06:00 on 25 September; the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade from Suweileh in the north west, with their right on the main Es Salt to Amman road, the 2nd Light Horse Brigade from Ain es Sir in the west, along the Amman
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After the British West Indies Regiment advances towards Bakr Ridge were consolidated and continued at dawn on 20 September, their 2nd Battalion captured Bakr Ridge along with Baghalat and Chalk Ridge. Although the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers was opposed at Mellaha the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and
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After leaving a detachment to hold the Jisr ed Damieh bridge and two other fords against any further retreating columns, Chaytor's Force advanced eastwards to attack and capture the garrisons at Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt. With the Fourth Army in retreat, they continued to Amman, where they attacked
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Chaytor's Force's total captures from the beginning of operations to 30 September were 10,322 prisoners, fifty-seven guns, including one 5.9 gun, three 5.9 howitzers, one anti-aircraft gun, ten 10 cm guns, thirty-two 77 mm guns, six 75 mm guns, two 3-inch guns and two 13-pounder HAC
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With Amman captured, the 2nd Light Horse Brigade continued its advance east of the Citadel, across the Wadi Amman, and up on to Hill 3039, which they occupied. The 1st Light Horse Brigade meanwhile advanced along the railway to the north of Amman and captured several guns and hundreds of prisoners
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The Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, with one section of machine guns and one section of the 29th Indian Mountain Battery attached, leading the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade (commanded by Meldrum) came under machine gun and artillery fire and were fully engaged when, at 09:00 the 2nd Light
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The 2nd Light Horse Brigade was delayed by the difficult track up the Wadis Jeri'a and Sir which did not reach Ain Hummar on the main road five miles (8.0 km) east of Es Salt until the afternoon of 24 September. The main road had been blown up in places by the retreating Ottoman Army, forcing
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Meanwhile, Chaytor's Force at Amman, blocked the road and railway, and prepared to intercept the withdrawing Ottoman II Corps of the Fourth Army, also known as Southern Force, retreating north from Ma'an. This large Ottoman force which had garrisoned the towns and railway stations on the southern
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The Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment dismounted to continue their attack on the Citadel with the bayonet. By 15:17 the "enemy's resistance was collapsing," when the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment captured the Citadel, 119 prisoners and six machine guns. They had advanced to a position "from
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The Seventh and Fourth Armies had begun to withdraw, and before dawn on 21 September Chaytor ordered the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment to advance and capture Kh Fasail, two miles (3.2 km) north of Baghalat and about halfway to Damieh, which they had captured by 23:30. The Nablus to Damieh
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The 1st Light Horse Brigade ordered its 1st Light Horse Regiment to circle round the left flank of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and advance towards the railway, while a squadron of the 7th Light Horse Regiment (2nd Light Horse Brigade) captured some Ottoman sangars on the right of the
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The defences at Amman had been greatly strengthened since the First Transjordan attack on Amman in March 1918, by the construction of a series of redoubts that were reinforced by machine guns. In addition, "the natural difficulties of the broken country made Amman a very hard nut to crack." The
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Orders were then issued for the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and the 2nd Light Horse Brigades to advance to Amman beginning at 06:00 on 25 September. The 1st Light Horse Brigade was to follow at 06:30, while the 1st Battalion British West Indies Regiment would march to Suweileh to replace the New
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Chaytor's Force suffered 139 casualties: twenty-seven killed, seven missing and 105 wounded in battle. Of these the ANZAC Mounted Division suffered sixteen men killed and fifty-six wounded, while the 2nd Battalion British West Indies Regiment suffered forty-one casualties. There were 10,322
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south from Amman to effectively end military operations in the area. Together these EEF victories during the Battle of Megiddo, resulted in the capture of the equivalent of one Ottoman army and many miles of territory, and forced the remnants of two armies to retreat in disarray.
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guns, 147 machine guns, thirteen automatic rifles, including one Hotchkiss rifle and one Lewis gun, two wireless sets, eleven railway engines, 106 railway rolling stock, 142 vehicles and large quantities of artillery shells, small arms ammunition and other material.
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Only the rearguard of the Ottoman Fourth Army was captured at Amman. The remainder of the garrison had already withdrawn northwards, following orders received from Liman von Sanders on 21 September, four days before Chaytor's attack.
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Patiala Infantry, advanced eastwards across the Jordan Valley toward the strongly entrenched Shunet Nimrin position, and Derbasi on the Ottoman left flank although positions east of the Jordan River continued to be strongly held.
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West Indies Regiment supported by a field artillery battery and an Indian mountain battery. The 39th Royal Fusiliers formed the sector reserve, while the 1st Light Horse Brigade was in Force reserve.
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rule, Amman, with its fine Roman ruins including an amphitheatre, lies "cupped in hills." A citadel on a hill covered the northern and western approaches to the city while east was the
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area's boggy ground had limited movement during the first attack in March, but by the early autumn the approach had become hard, and favoured rapid mounted attack.
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and captured a strong Ottoman rearguard of the Fourth Army's VIII Corps, which fought a determined action. Subsequently, Chaytor's Force accepted the surrender at
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Hill 3039 had been captured and held, and then relinquished at great cost, during the First Transjordan attack on Amman at the end of March 1918.
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during the Second Transjordan attacks at the end of April, having moved forward from Amman after the First Transjordan attack on Amman in March.
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This was the second time that a commander of the Ottoman 53rd Division had been captured by the New Zealanders. The first happened during the
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Gullett's Map 35 shows positions on 2 May 1918 during the Second Transjordan attack, also shows the Naaur and Ain es Sir tracks to Amman
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and Auja bridgeheads to the Dead Sea. This area garrisoned by Chaytor's Force was overlooked by well sighted Ottoman long range guns.
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The Fourth Army consisting of 6,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry supported by seventy-four artillery pieces was commanded by General
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Transjordan theatre of operations 21 March to 2 April; 30 April to 4 May and 20 to 29 September. Detail shows advance to Amman
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in the Judean Hills eight miles (13 km) north west of Jericho, across the Jordan Valley, and then southwards through the
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This Composite Division of a group of German battalions is not identified in any more detail by any of the sources quoted.
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The ration strength of Chaytor's Force at the end of operations on 30 September was "8,000 British, 3,000 Indian, 500
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VIII Corps; Caucasus Cavalry Brigade, 48th Division, Composite Division, Mule-mounted Infantry Regiment
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was "nearly equivalent to two divisions," being a reinforced mounted infantry division of 11,000 men.
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who were attempting to retreat. A squadron from the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment was sent to
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The commander has also been referred to as Cemal, Cemal Kucjuk Pasha and Djemal the Lesser.
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The two battalions of fusiliers had been recruited from England, America and the Middle East.
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One source describes the raid taking place during the night of 23/24 September.
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Wilkie (1922). 1619:The Fourth Army had been based at 1386:New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade 1350:This composite force commanded by 1337: 14: 3750: 2610:Cutlack, Frederic Morley (1941). 1415:Gwalior Imperial Service Infantry 1412:Patiala Imperial Service Infantry 1298:While the initial attacks by the 1214:First Transjordan attack on Amman 3194:Kirte Bağları (Krithia Vineyard) 2884: 1178:in the Judean Hills against the 234: 223: 211: 200: 180: 168: 155: 139: 126: 113: 99: 43:View across Amman to the Citadel 37: 2764:. Auckland: Exisle Publishing. 2417: 2408: 2399: 2390: 2381: 2372: 2363: 2342: 2333: 2324: 2315: 2290: 2281: 2251: 2242: 2233: 2224: 2215: 2192: 2183: 2114: 2105: 2096: 2060: 2051: 2019: 1950: 1932: 1923: 1914: 1905: 1896: 1887: 1878: 1869: 1860: 1839: 1830: 1821: 1803: 1675: 1666: 1653: 1644: 1635: 1626: 1613: 1604: 1425:, the 38th and 39th Battalions 1409:Alwar Imperial Service Infantry 1322:. The army headquarters was at 2066:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 552, note 1875:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 pp. 661, 673 1752: 1743: 1734: 1725: 1707: 1438:Egyptian Camel Transport Corps 1: 3169:3rd Arıburnu (3rd Anzac Cove) 3154:2nd Arıburnu (2nd Anzac Cove) 2430: 1405:110th Mahratta Light Infantry 1203: 1104:captured the bridge over the 1084:which together with the main 3631:For the battles before 1900 3229:Yusufçuktepe (Scimitar Hill) 2813:Pugsley, Christoper (2004). 2665:Erickson, Edward J. (2001). 1567: 1423:British West Indies Regiment 1232:Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1157:Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1094:Sinai and Palestine Campaign 643:Sinai and Palestine Campaign 271:British West Indies Regiment 7: 2526:. London: H.M. Stationers. 2321:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 pp. 552–3 2239:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 pp. 554–5 2111:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 pp. 553–4 2057:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 pp. 551–2 1884:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 pp. 548–9 1421:the 1st and 2nd Battalions 1230:The front line held by the 10: 3755: 2833:Wavell, Field Marshal Earl 2779:Moore, A. Briscoe (1920). 2629:DiMarco, Louis A. (2008). 1302:, the breakthrough by the 1285: 1207: 3627: 3134:1st Arıburnu (Anzac Cove) 3124:Seddülbayır (Cape Helles) 3083: 2949: 2895: 2581:. London: Pan Macmillan. 1514: 1444:Jordan Valley deployments 1222:Capture of Jericho (1918) 651: 341: 275:38th and 39th Battalions 246: 193: 91: 47: 36: 28: 23: 3234:Selman’ı Pak (Ctesiphon) 2975:Beşpınar (Pente Pigadia) 2817:. Auckland: Reed Books. 2688:History of the Great War 2312:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 555 2266:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 559 2230:Powles 1922 pp. 252, 257 2166:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 554 2102:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 553 1991:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 550 1947:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 549 1893:Powles 1922 pp. 231, 235 1818:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 674 1749:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 330 1740:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 329 1722:Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 547 1592: 1253: 1210:Battle of Megiddo (1918) 1078:Third Transjordan attack 599:Indian and Pacific Ocean 3055:2nd Edirne (Adrianople) 3005:1st Edirne (Adrianople) 2760:Kinloch, Terry (2007). 2562:. London: John Murray. 2558:Bruce, Anthony (2002). 1380:2nd Light Horse Brigade 1374:1st Light Horse Brigade 831:Berukin & 1st Arara 269:1st and 2nd Battalions 2743:; Joan Graham (1955). 2705:Australia in Palestine 2348:Cutlack 1941 pp. 166–7 2120:Powles 1922 pp. 249–50 1920:Blenkinsop 1925 p. 242 1552: 1524: 1365:ANZAC Mounted Division 1347: 1295: 1183:Valley to capture the 1074:Second Battle of Amman 745:2nd Southern Palestine 728:1st Southern Palestine 260:Anzac Mounted Division 230:Otto Liman von Sanders 194:Commanders and leaders 24:Second Battle of Amman 3739:20th century in Amman 3734:September 1918 events 3694:1918 in Ottoman Syria 3454:Berukin and 1st Arara 3199:Kanlısırt (Lone Pine) 2682:Falls, Cyril (1930). 2405:Powles 1922 pp. 254–5 2257:Downes 1938 pp. 723–4 2248:Powles 1922 pp. 255–6 2221:Powles 1922 pp. 251–2 2198:Powles 1922 pp. 250–1 2034:Moore 1920 pp. 148–50 2025:Powles 1922 pp. 245–6 1782:Powles 1922 pp. 233–4 1704:Gullett 1919 pp. 25–6 1550: 1522: 1345: 1293: 1270:'s ten cities during 733:Hafir el Auja railway 441:Sinai & Palestine 3219:Kılıçbayır (The Nek) 3094:Köprüköy (Bergmann) 2378:Wavell 1968 p. 221–2 1800:Keogh 1955 pp. 241–2 1791:Erickson 2001 p. 196 1661:First Battle of Gaza 1501:5th Cavalry Division 1497:14th Cavalry Brigade 1495:was captured by the 1431:Machine Gun Squadron 1320:Mohammed Jemal Pasha 1304:Desert Mounted Corps 1172:Desert Mounted Corps 1159:(EEF), commanded by 1116:and remnants of the 765:Hareira & Sheria 241:Mohammed Jemal Pasha 3661: /  2970:Kırcalı (Kardzhali) 2414:Kinloch 2007 p. 318 2387:Moore 1920 pp.160–1 2296:Kinloch 2007 p. 316 2287:DiMarco 2008 p. 332 2278:Kinloch 2007 p. 321 2189:Kinloch 2007 p. 315 1929:Pugsley 2004 p. 143 1396:20th Indian Brigade 1314:Ottoman Fourth Army 1234:(EEF) commanded by 1142:Yildirim Army Group 1112:while units of the 939:Afulah & Beisan 550:North-West Frontier 265:20th Indian Brigade 151:British West Indies 3394:Hareira and Sheria 2721:Hill, Alec Jeffrey 2539:Bou, Jean (2009). 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Index

Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

Amman
Syria Vilayet
Ottoman Empire
British Empire
British India
Australia
New Zealand
Arab Revolt
Ottoman Empire
German Empire
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edmund Allenby
Dominion of New Zealand
Edward Chaytor
German Empire
Otto Liman von Sanders
Ottoman Empire
Mohammed Jemal Pasha
Chaytor's Force
Anzac Mounted Division
20th Indian Brigade
British West Indies Regiment
Royal Fusiliers
Fourth Army
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