Pursuit to Haritan
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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
Desert Mounted Corps headquarters at Aleppo
Ottoman infantry column c 1917 many wearing Keffiyehs
Otto Liman von Sanders
7th (Meerut) Division at Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River)
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War, in which he led t
Pursuit to Haritan
…of Megiddo on 25 September the Yildirim Army Group was forced to withdraw towards Damascus. The commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force General Edmund Allenby ordered Lieutenant General Henry Chauvel's Desert Mounted Corps to pursue these retreating columns. Followed by the 5th Cavalry Division, the Australian…
Allenby in 1917
Allenby (centre), together with General Sir Herbert Plumer (left) and General Sir Henry Horne in conference at Camblain-Chatelain, France, 1916.
Allenby and King Albert I of Belgium.
Drawing of Allenby from journal "The War" c. 1917