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Battle of El Tor | |||||||
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Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ottoman Empire German Empire | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mostafa Helmy |
Hussein Fawzi George Qandas | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
A platoon of the 2nd Egyptian Bayada (infantry) battalion. | 3rd Division Ottoman | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
200+150, two blocks led by Yuzbashi Mostafa Helmy and other Egyptian officers. 200, Infantry Brigade 2/7 Gurkha Rifles. | 200 Bedouin, 1 Turkish officer and 2 German officers. | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1 Gurkha soldier killed. |
~60 Bedouins killed 100+ captured. |
The Battle of El Tor was fought in 1915 between the United Kingdom, Sultanate of Egypt, the Ottoman and German empires, as a part of World War I.