Mesopotamia Campaign – 1914-1918 7th Gurkha Rifles escorting Turkish prisoners captured at the Battle of Shaiba, 1915.7th Gurkha Rifles escorting Turkish prisoners past Arab onlookers, 1915.8th Rajputs on the marrch near Shuster, MEsopotamia.89th Punjabis manning a machine gun Messopoamia 1916.Pontoon bridge at Hibsh built by Indian Sappers and Miners, 1916.Baghdad, the Ottoman capital of Mmesopotamia, was captured by and Anglo-Indian force under the command of Lt. General Sir Stanley Maude, on 11 March, 1917,Baghdad, the Ottoman capital of Mesopotamia, was captured by an Anglo-Indian force under the command of Lt. General Sir Stanley Maude on 11 March 1917British and Indian machine gunners with a Vickers machine gun, Lewis gun and range-finder, 1917 Messopotamia.Bulk of the British forces engaged against the Ottoman Turks in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) were from the Indian Army. Here a group fromt he 120th Rajputana Infantry train with a machine-gun and rifles.Allied victory parade in Baghdad, 16 November, 1918.Indian Military Engineers in Mesopotamia, World War 1.Indian Sappers and Miners building a pontoon bridge over the River Dijalah, 1917.Indian troops boarding bellums, Basra, 1915.Indian troops entering the Citadel Gate, Baghdad, 1917.Indian army soldier after siege of Kut.Kasr-i-Shirin in Western Persia, at a spot whre the British and Indian forces from Mesopotamia met up with Russian troops.Mountain Guns - Sikh Soldiers - Mesopotamia.A Sepoy guarding a gateway, Baghdad, 1917.Procolomation held on 2nd Nov, 1918 at Baghdad, on account of the Turkish Armstice.Troops landing at Shaik Saad, Mesopotamia, 1916.Map - Mesopotamia Previous Next