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 A
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
Siege of Kut
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The siege of Kut Al Amara, also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000-strong British Indian Army garrison in the town of Kut, 160 km south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In
Battle of Dujaila
…at the Battle of Ctesiphon, it proved to be a Pyrrhic victory. The Poona Division retreated to Kut. The Ottoman Sixth Army, reinforced, pursued and laid siege to the town after attempts to storm the Anglo-Indian positions failed. Failing to take the town by storm, the Ottoman Sixth Army had adopted a passive…
Charles Townshend and Halil Pasha after the fall of Kut
Situation at Kut on 28 September 1915
The British Headquarters in Kut
An Indian soldier after the siege of Kut