60th (2/2nd London) Division
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The 60th Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised during World War I. It was the second line-formation of the 47th Division, and was the second of two such Territorial Force divisi
Maj-Gen Edward Bulfin
Monument to the 9 December 1917, surrender of Jerusalem to the 60th London Division.
Sergeants Hurcomb (right) and Sedgewick (left) of 2/19th Londons with the Mayor of Jerusalem and his delegation
Maj-Gen J. S. M. Shea, GOC 60th Division
Battle of Beersheba (1917)
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The Battle of Beersheba was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force attacked and captured the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba, begi
60th (2/2nd London) Division
…conveyed the men to Southampton from camps around Warminster, Heytesbury, and Codford stations. Its engagements included the Third Battle of Gaza, the Battle of Beersheba (1917), the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), the Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt (1918), the Battle of Megiddo (1918), the Battle of Sharon…
Beersheba in 1917
British infantry marching on the wire road across the desert between Bir el Mazar and Bardawil in February 1917
Beersheba Serai
Ottoman defences around Beersheba