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How many Ottomans were captured in 1918?
How many Ottomans were captured in 1918?
Has anyone got figures on the number of Turks captured in 1918?What percentage of the total force in Palestine became prisoners?
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According to Taskıran (who wrote books about Turkish pow in wwo) minumum 202.000 pows. I have the book but I couldnt find. If I found I will give more certain numbers.
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I've got some data now.The 202,000 figure appears to be total POWs 1914-18.Some Turkish sources even state 250,000 were captured. Erickson's figure is around 145,000.
Roughly as follows:
Mesopotamia 18,000
Russia 50,000
Sinai/Palestine 77,000
Of the later figure,6,000 POWs at 3rd Gaza/Jerusalem,another 71,000 Megiddo.The British Official History gives 75,000 captured in 1918--4,000 Germans/Austrians,71,000 Turks.
In the overall picture 75,000 POWs are not a huge horde but with the 7th & 8th Armies only comprising 100,000 men in September 1918,then three quarters were captured from the Megiddo operation.
Roughly as follows:
Mesopotamia 18,000
Russia 50,000
Sinai/Palestine 77,000
Of the later figure,6,000 POWs at 3rd Gaza/Jerusalem,another 71,000 Megiddo.The British Official History gives 75,000 captured in 1918--4,000 Germans/Austrians,71,000 Turks.
In the overall picture 75,000 POWs are not a huge horde but with the 7th & 8th Armies only comprising 100,000 men in September 1918,then three quarters were captured from the Megiddo operation.