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Description: | 1/8th Grukha Rifles, 21st Brigade (7th Division) occupying captured Turkish trenches near Tikrit, 7 November 1917, following the capture of the town two days earlier. Following confirmation that the Turks had pulled back to prepared positions at the Fat-ha Gorge, the British withdrew south from Tikrit having destroyed stores left behind by the Turks.
Indian troops at advanced line of captured Turkish trenches.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mesopotamia 1914-1918 1st Battalion Operations Ottoman Empire British Army 1914-1918 8th Gurkha Rifles Land Warfare Indian Army First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Varges, Ariel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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