Chaytor's Force named after its commander, Major General Edward Chaytor, was a composite division-sized force which served in the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The force of 11,000 men, consisted of a division headquarters, three mounted and one infantry brigades, four independent infantry battalions and four artillery batteries and was detached from the Desert Mounted Corps for deception operations.
Prisoners taken by Chaytor's Force
Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor, was a farmer, and a military commander of New Zealand troops in the Boer War and the First World War.
Chaytor, c. 1918