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1st Battle Gaza

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Palestine campaign

The British invasion of Ottoman-held Palestine in 1917-18 was the third - and last - campaign launched by the Allies against the Ottoman Turks in the Middle East during the First World War. Read the full article

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The commander of Eastern Force mistakenly thought that the Egyptian Expeditionary Force could capture Gaza in March 1917 by using essentially the same tactics as those employed at

Photograph of Trooper Arthur Richard Fitzherbert published in the Auckland Weekly News, 26 April 1917.

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