Major-General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, was a British marine and later soldier who led an overreaching military campaign in Mesopotamia during World War I. His troops were besieged and captu
Major General Townshend, Turkish regional governor Halil Kut and unidentified officers after the siege of Kut, 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
Charles Townshend (British Army officer)
…marine and later soldier who led an overreaching military campaign in Mesopotamia during World War I. His troops were besieged and captured at the Siege of Kut (December 1915 – April 1916), which historian Christopher Catherwood called "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I". Controversially and in…
Situation at Kut on 28 September 1915
The British Headquarters in Kut
An Indian soldier after the siege of Kut