report, form
Accession Number
NAM.1996-06-158-23
Description
Typescript report issued by GHQ MEF on ‘The Hamidieh Cavalry’ instituted Sultan Abdul Hamid with the object of utilising on behalf of the Turkish Government the large numbers of armed mounted men possessed by Kurdish and Arab confederations and tribes within the Ottoman Empire... There were 66 regiments..’, 11 Aug 1919. From a collection of papers of Lt Francis Low, 4th Bn Gordon Highlanders attached 1/16th Bn Hampshire Regiment, Mesopotamia, 1916-1921.
Campaigns
World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)