Battle of Dujaila
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The Battle of Dujaila was fought on 8 March 1916, between British and Ottoman forces during the First World War. The Ottoman forces, led by Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz were besieging Kut, when the Anglo-Indian relief force, led by Lieutenant-General Fenton Aylmer, attempted to relieve the city. The attempt failed, and Aylmer lost 3,500 men.
Lieutenant General Sir Fenton John Aylmer, 13th Baronet of Donadea VC KCB, commander of the Tigris Corps in March 1916
Major-General Henry D'Urban Keary, GOC 3rd (Lahore) Division
Major General George V. Kemball
British infantry advancing through Mesopotamia near the Tigris river in 1916
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
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Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, also known as Goltz Pasha, was a Prussian field marshal and military writer.
Colmar von der Goltz
General von der Goltz Pasha, a German in service in the Turkish Army (on the right with greatcoat). Next to him is Drugut Pasha. Bitola, 1909. Photo by the Manaki brothers (broken glass plate).
Goltz as Field Marshal
Ras al-Ain (Syria), near the Euphrates river (then the end of the Baghdad Railway), May 1916: German officers of the Special Palestine Mission are waiting for the arrival of the coffin of Goltz-Pasha