Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders was an Imperial German Army general who served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army during the First World War. He joined the military and rose through the rank
Otto Liman Von Sanders
Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders at the Ottoneum in Kassel circa 1913
Ottoman general staff of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, 1914 (Sanders sitting middle)
Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Otto Liman von Sanders, and Oswald Boelcke in Ottoman Turkey, 1916
The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918. The British Empire, the French Third Republic, and the Kingd
Otto Liman von Sanders
…the military and rose through the ranks to General. He led the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-1916 and in 1918 he commanded an Ottoman army during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. Otto Liman was born in Stolp (now Słupsk, Poland) in the Province of Pomerania in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of Carl Leonhard Liman and…
Ottoman artillerymen with a 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 shortly before the Battle of Hareira and Sheria amidst the Southern Palestine offensive, 1917
1st Herts. Yeomanry in the Suez Canal trenches, 1915
Mysore and Bengal Lancers with Bikanir Camel Corps in the Sinai Desert 1915.
Mysore Lancers Memorial at Bangalore for lives lost in Suez & Palestine