Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 20.09.2005
FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
Egypt
1915-1917
  Causes
  Chronology
  Results
  Forces & Casualties
  Commanders
  Battles & Battle Honours 		  Order of  Battle
  Campaign Medals
  Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums & Memorials
  Bibliography  
  External Links
 
   Causes

     

   Chronology (except battles, which see below)
 
 
 
   Results

     

   Forces and Casualties
 
 
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
  subtotal
  TOTAL
                   
   Commanders
 
Britain & Allies:
Lt-Gen. Sir John Maxwell GOC-in-C, Egypt
Maj-Gen. A. Wallace commander, WFF 1915 Nov. 20
Maj-Gen. W.E. Peyton commander, WFF 1916 Jan.
   
Ottomans & Allies:
 
Gen. Nuri Bey commander, Libyan army
  Ja'far Pasha 2ic, Libyan army
       
   
   Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
Date Battles
(Battle Honours are shown in bold face) 		Regiments
(regts with emblazoned Honours shown in bold;
non-honoured in italics)
Note: British battle honours were first awarded in Sep. 1922. After some corrections a "final list" was substituted in Feb. 1925. Indian Army awards were made in 1926-28. Australian awards were made in 1927. New Zealand awards were made in 1928. South African awards were made in 1926.
1915 Jan. 26-
   1915 Aug. 12		 Suez Canal
Cav: Y25 Y48
Inf: 7Bn 8Bn
Inf: Auckland Hauraki NAuckland Waikato WWCR HBR Taranaki Canterbury NMWCR Otago Southland
1915 Feb. 3-4 Defence of Suez Canal
Cav: Y12
 
Senussi Campaign
1915 Dec. 11 Wadi Senab
Cav: CompY
Inf: F15
Cav: CompLH
 
1915 Dec. 25 Wadi Medwa
Cav: CompY(Y12+?)
Inf: F15
Inf: NZRB
 
1916 Jan. 23 Halazin
Cav: CompY(Y12+Y21+?) Inf: 6/F1
Inf: F15
Inf: NZRB
Inf: Natal OFSR
 
1916 Feb. 24 Agagiya
Cav: Y23
Inf: 1SAI 3SAI
 
1916 Aug. 4-5 Rumani
Cav: Y2 Y7 Y24 Y31 Y47 Y59
Inf: F1 F2 F20 F21 F23 F25 F26 F30 F35 F44 F50 F57 F63 F71 F91 Hereford
Cav: LH1 LH2 LH3 LH5 LH6 LH7 LH8 LH9 LH10 LH11 LH12 LH14 LH15
Cav: Canterbury QAWWC Auckland Waikato Manawatu WEC NM NAuckland
Inf: ?/BWIR
 
Sinai Peninsula Operations
1916 Dec. 23-
   1917 Jan. 9		 Magdhaba-Rafah
Cav: LH1 LH2 LH3 LH8 LH9 LH10 LH14 LH15
Magdhaba-Rafah
Cav: Canterbury QAWWC Auckland Waikato Manawatu WEC NM NAuckland
 
1917 Jan. 9 Rafah
Cav: Y2 Y24 Y31
Arty: A/HAC B/HAC
 
1915 Jan. 26-
   1917 Feb. 8		 Egypt 1915
Cav: Y40 Inf: F31
Egypt 1915-16
Cav: Y4 Y15 Y22 Y25 Y27 Y47 Y49 Y57 Y59
Inf: F1 F2 F14 F15 F50 F51 F68 L2 L3
Inf: RNewf
Inf:
Inf:
Egypt 1916
Inf: F4 F7 F10 F19 F24 F25 F27 F28 F29 F33 F34 F38 F39 F40 F42 F45 F47 F64 F65 F71 F91 F101 F102 L1 L4
Inf: GR4
Egypt 1916-17
Cav: Y6 Y7 Y8 Y13 Y16 Y18 Y19 Y28 Y30 Y32 Y33 Y36 Y43 Y44
Inf: F5 F11 F21 F26 Herf
Inf: BWIR
Egypt 1915-17
Cav: Y2 Y5 Y21 Y23 Y24 Y26 Y29 Y31 Y41 Y42 Y45 Y46 Y48 Y56 Arty: HAC
Inf: F9 F12 F16 F20 F22 F23 F30 F35 F37 F41 F44 F48 F57 F63 L10 L11
   Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
   Medals Index of Campaign Medals
 
 
   Societies, Forums & Re-Enactors
   Museums & Memorials
   Bibliography
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