Indian Lancers riding through Jerusalem. The city was taken by the Allies on December 11, 1917.
In JerusalemIndian Lancers passing through the streetsPrinted in EnglandS 6
"At 3.30 in the morning of September 19th began a tremendous drum fire against the whole front of the right wing of the Eighth Army from the coast to the mountains. Shortly after daybreak squadrons of British fliers appeared over the houses of headquarters of the Seventh and Eighth Armies, over the tent camps of the various corps headquarters, and over the central telephone office of the Army Group in Affuleh; flying low, they threw bombs on them and destroyed part of our wire. . . .Numerous wires in our land lines had been cut in the early morning hours by the Arabs. . . .Between 9 and 10 a.m. headquarters of the Seventh Army wired from Nablus that Colonel von Oppen had reported that the front of the right flank group in the coast sector had been broken through, and that strong cavalry forces were advancing northward along the coast. . . .Up to this day no exhaustive account has appeared of the complete and sudden collapse of the 7th Division in the western part of the coast sector, and of the adjoining two regiments of the 20th Division. . . . After two hours of drum fire they had completely disappeared on September 19th . . ."
Excerpts from German General Otto Liman von Sanders account of the September 19, 1918 British attack on the Turkish forces in Palestine. British General Edmund Allenby attacked along the coast rather than inland where Arab forces working with T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, staged a raid on Daraa and the Hejaz Railroad. Sanders account on the 19th and subsequent days gives ample evidence of the success of the deception and of Arab and Royal Air Force attacks on communications.
Five Years in Turkey by Liman von Sanders, pp. 275–277, publisher: The Battery Press with War and Peace Books, publication date: 1928 (originally)
1918-09-19, 1918, September, Palestine, Indian Lancers in Jerusalem
