Mesopotamia Campaign

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This event is part of the First World War

Synopsis

The Mesopotamia Campaign was fought from November 1914 to November 1918 between the Allies represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from the Indian Empire, and the Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire.

Related articles

For further details of events during this period see the following articles

• Fao Landing 6 November 1914
• Battle of Basra 21-22 November 1914
• Battle of Qurna 3-9 December 1914
• Battle of Shaiba 12-14 April 1915
• Capture of Amara 3 June 1915
• Battle of Nasiriyeh 24 July 1915
• Battle of Es Sinn 28 September 1915
• Battle of Ctesiphon 22-24 November 1915
• Siege of Kut 7 December 1915- 29 April 1916
• Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad 6-9 January 1916
• Battle of Wadi 13 January 1916
• Battle of Hanna 21 January 1916
• Battle of Dujaila 8 March 1916

Biographies

Details of some of the protagonists in the campaign

• General Sir Fenton Aylmer
• Maj-Gen Sir Arthur Barrett
• Brig- Gen Walter Delamain
• Baron Wilhelm von der Goltz
• Lieut-Gen Sir George Gorringe
• Halil Pasha
• Kâzım Karabekir
• Lieut-Gen Sir Frederick Maude
• Maj-Gen Sir Charles Melliss VC
• Lieut-Gen John Nixon
• Colonel Nureddin Pasha
• Maj-Gen Sir Charles Townshend

6th (Poona) Division

16th Indian Infantry Brigade

• 2nd Btn Dorsetshire Regiment
• 1st Bn. 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)
• 1st Btn 104th Wellesley’s Rifles
• 1st Btn 117th Mahrattas
  

17th Indian Infantry Brigade

• 1st Btn Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
• 1st Btn 119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)
• 1st Btn 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry
• 1st Btn 22nd Punjabis
  

18th Indian Infantry Brigade

• 2nd Btn Norfolk Regiment
• 1st Btn 110th Mahratta Light Infantry
• 1st Btn 120th Rajputana Infantry
• 1st Btn 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajputs
  

Divisional Artillery

• X Brigade Royal Field Artillery
• 76 Bty. Royal Field Artillery
• 82 Bty. Royal Field Artillery
• 63 Bty. Royal Field Artillery
• 1st Indian Mountain Artillery Brigade
• 23rd (Peshawar) Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
• 30th Mountain Battery
  

Divisional troops

• 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry
• 17 Co. 3rd Sappers and Miners
• 22 Co. 3rd Sappers and Miners
• 48th Pioneers

12th Indian Division

12th Indian Brigade
Commanding Officer, Brigadier K E Lean

• 2nd Btn Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• 4th Prince Albert Victor's Rajputs
• 44th Merwara Infantry
• 90th Punjabis
  

30th Indian Brigade
Commanding Officer, Major General C J Melliss

• 24th Punjabis
• 76th Punjabis
• 2nd Btn 7th Gurkha Rifles

33rd Indian Brigade
Commanding Officer, Brigadier R Wapshare

• 1/4th Btn Hampshire Regiment
• 11th Rajputs
• 66th Punjabis
• 67th Punjabis
  

Divisional Cavalry

• Two sqns 33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry
  

Divisional Artillery

• 86 Heavy Bty Royal Garrison Artillery
• 104 Heavy Bty Royal Garrison Artillery

1/5th Hants Howitzer Bty Royal Field Artillery
Divisional Engineers

• 12 Field Coy Sirmur Imperial Service Coy, Sappers & Miners
• 12 Div Signal Coy

External links

• Mesopotamian Campaign Wikipedia
• Siege of Kut Wikipedia
• Mesopotamia 1914-1918.net
• "Iraq 1917 - A 90th Anniversary" by Dr D M Henderson 2007. The Scots at War Trust. A review of the war in Mesopotamia
• Maps of operations firstworldwar.com

Historical books online

• History Of The Great War: The Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Volumes I-IV by F J Moberly. 1923-1927 are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. The Contents pages of Volume IV are computer pages 15-20. Titles of Indian Cavalry, Infantry and Pioneer Units who served in Mesopotamia 1914-1918 may be found on pages 402-404 (computer pages 463-465). Refer Online books-Digital Library of India for more details about this site.
• A brief outline of the campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918 by Roger Evans, 1926 Archive.org (You will need a Djvu plug-in, see our article Online books-Archive.org)
• "Progress in Mesopotamia" from The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 9 The Fourth Year 1917-1918 ed by JA Hammerton 1918 Archive.org
• "Final Victories over the Turk" from The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 10 the Last Phase ed by JA Hammerton 1919 Archive.org
• The war in the cradle of the world Mesopotamia by Eleanor Franklin Egan 1918. Archive.org The author was correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. More details in "Writing "Mesopot": Eleanor Franklin Egan on the river to Baghdad, 1917" by David Hudson.