✦ History

Part of World War I, Sinai and Palestine campaign

Battle of Beersheba (1917)

October 31, 1917 · Battle of Beersheba (1917)

Result Allied victory

The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade charged and took Beersheba and its wells, turning the Gaza line.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Central Powers

Other

United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Ottoman Empire
German Empire
Philip Chetwode military commander Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby military commander Harry Chauvel military commander Edward Chaytor military commander
İsmet İnönü military commander Fevzi Çakmak military commander Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
171
Casualties
c. 1,000
Captured
1,947
Guns
28

Units

Egyptian Expeditionary Force Desert Mounted Corps Imperial Camel Corps XX Corps (United Kingdom) XXI Corps (United Kingdom) 10th (Irish) Division 60th (2/2nd London) Division 74th (Yeomanry) Division ANZAC Mounted Division Australian Mounted Division Yeomanry Mounted Division 14th Cavalry Brigade (British Indian Army) 1st Light Horse Brigade 2nd Light Horse Brigade 3rd Light Horse Brigade 4th Light Horse Brigade 12th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)
Yildirim Army Group Seventh Army (Ottoman Empire) III Corps (Ottoman Empire)
Egyptian Camel Transport Corps