The Charge at Haritan, named after a town north of Aleppo, occurred on 26 October 1918 at the end of the Pursuit to Haritan during the final stages of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First Wor
An Imperial Service Mysore Lancer
No. 12 Light Armoured Motor Battery and No. 7 Light Car Patrol with the 5th Cavalry Brigade on the road north of Aleppo. Mehemet Ali military barracks in background
Railway Station, Mouslimie, Syria.
The Pursuit to Haritan occurred between 29 September and 26 October 1918 when the XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force pursued the retreating remnants of the Yildirim
Charge at Haritan
…The Charge at Haritan, named after a town north of Aleppo, occurred on 26 October 1918 at the end of the Pursuit to Haritan during the final stages of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Two regiments of the 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade, 5th…
Desert Mounted Corps headquarters at Aleppo
Ottoman infantry column c 1917 many wearing Keffiyehs
7th (Meerut) Division at Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River)