13th (Western) Division
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The 13th Division was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions in the First World War, raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener. It fought at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and Persia.
Men of No. 15 Platoon, D Company, 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, pictured here at Basingstoke, presumably during 1915.
Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, who commanded the 13th Division at Gallipoli and the unsuccessful attempt to relieve Kut in Mesopotamia.
View of Gallipoli from the battleship HMS Cornwallis. The smoke is coming from stores being burned during the evacuation.
Tommies of the 7th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, on the march in Mesopotamia. In February 1916, the 13th (Western) Division was sent to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) to reinforce the Tigris Corps. The picture was possibly taken in 1917 because of the prevalence of steel helmets.
The 39th Infantry Brigade was a military formation of the British Army that was first established during the First World War and reformed in the 1950s.
13th (Western) Division
…did not arrive for some months. Initially in reserve to the main break-out from Anzac by units of the New Zealand and Australian Division, the 38th and 39th Infantry brigades were sent in as reinforcements as the attack stalled. The 7th Gloucesters and the 8th Royal Welch Fusiliers were sent to support the…
Soldiers of the 39th Brigade at Enzeli after being evacuated from Baku.