What do you want here? Turkish and British child soldiers on the Suez Canal. After crossing the Sinai Peninsula during January, 1915, a Turkish army of approximately 12,000 soldiers reached the Suez Canal on February 2, and tried to cross after nightfall, but were driven back. On the 3rd, the British crossed the canal, and struck the Turkish left flank, driving them back. By February 10, the Turks had evacuated the Peninsula.
Was willst Du hier?What do you want here?Suez-KanalReverse:A.R. & C.i.B. No. 718/4
"Next day [February 3, 1915], the British, supported by land and naval artillery, crossed the canal at Serapeum and attacked the Turkish left flank. By late afternoon a third of the Turkish Army was in full retreat, leaving 500 prisoners and many dead behind them. The guns of a Turkish warship in the adjacent lake then opened a lively fire, damaging a British gunboat. During the night, the Turks stole away, and so ended the battle of the Suez Canal. By February 10th, the Sinai Peninsula was cleared of the enemy."
After the attack on February 2-3, 1915, the Turks did not again seriously threaten the Suez Canal, although they attempted to lay mines in the Canal and connecting waterways. Only one mine damaged a ship, the liner Teiresias, on June 30. Many of the Turkish troops who could have threatened the Canal were redeployed to defend against the Allied invasion on the Gallipoli Peninsula,which began in April.
King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 140, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922
1915-02-03, 1915, February, Suez Canal, Suez, Egypt
