... Siege of Kut 66 76th Punjabis 40 , 43 , 45 89th Punjabis : Relief of Kut 93–94 90th Punjabis 42 92nd Infantry 82 97th Infantry 82 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry 31- 32 , 48 ; destroyed 67 ; Siege of Kut 65 , 66-67 104th Wellesley's ...
The British Mesopotamian Campaign and Commission Paul K. Davis. 7 THE SIEGE OF KUT - AL - AMARA DECEMBER 1915 - APRIL 1916 The authorities in London and India believed the early reports claiming victory at Ctesiphon ... Siege of Kut Al Amara.
... siege of Kut is used to examine how discourses of race shaped the reactions of servicemen to 'the cradle of civilisation', its inhabitants and the Indian men serving alongside them. The interest in the siege of Kut during the war was ...
... Siege of Kut. After a siege lasting 147 days, longer than the Siege of Ladysmith, the 12,000 troops who surrendered were forced to march over 1,000 miles to their prison camps in Turkish Anatolia, more than half of them dying on the ...
... Siege of Kut-al-Amara (Indiana University Press, 2014) provides more detail of the siege itself with excellent analysis of the Indian Army and its commanders, whilst Andrew Syk continues to provide some outstanding analysis of the ...
... Siege of Kut saw the defeat of a large British force in Mesopotamia by the Ottoman Army. The worst reverse for the British Army prior to the surrender of Singapore during World War II, the surrender of the force at Kut raised Otto- man ...
... SIEGE OF KUT - AL - AMARA . By Colonel P. HEHIR , C.B. , M.D. , I.M.S. THE DEFENCE OF KUT - AL - AMARA . ( a ) PERIOD FROM DECEMBER 4TH , 1915 , TO APRIL 29TH , 1916 . 1. The following statements are made from my personal diaries and ...
... Siege of Kut, in August 1916 the British Parliament set up an independent inquiry into the shortcomings and errors ... Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At War in Mesopotamia, 1915–1916. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. Long, P. W. ...
... siege of Kut al-Amara (hereafter Kut), a small town on the river Tigris where General Charles V.F. Townshend ... Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At War in Mesopotamia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014). 21 Gardner, The Siege of Kut-al ...
... Siege of Kut - el - Amara , W.C. Spackman Papers , Liddle Collection . 71 Millar , Kut , 181 ; Townshend , My Campaign in Mesopotamia , 237 ; P. Liddle inter- view with H.H. Rich , June 1973 , MES 086 , tape 55 , Liddle Collection ...