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Moving guns following the Battle of Shaiba, 1915
Photograph, World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918), 1915.
The British victory at Shaiba (12-14 April 1915) saw Major-General Charles Mellis's British-Indian defensive lines thwart an Ottoman attempt to re-take Basra. As well as Turkish regular soldiers, many of the Ottoman soldiers involved were Arab and Kurd irregulars.
From an album of 210 photographs compiled by Lieutenant Henry Curtis Gallup.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1987-01-70-58
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1987-01-70-58