Raid on Bir el Hassana

Raid on Bir el Hassana
Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

Map of Sinai Peninsula
Date13–21 February 1917
(1 week and 1 day)
Location
Central Sinai Peninsula
Result Retreat of last Ottoman garrisons out of the Sinai
Belligerents

 British Empire

Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
Sinai Bedouin
Commanders and leaders
British Empire Major J.R. Bassett Unknown
Units involved
2nd Battalion (British), Imperial Camel Corps
Hong Kong and Singapore (Mountain) Battery

Strength
Unknown 22 Ottoman troops plus armed Bedouins
Casualties and losses
1 wounded 22 prisoners

The Raid on Bir el Hassana (Hasna) occurred in the Sinai Peninsula in February 1917, during World War I. It was a minor action between an augmented battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps on the one side and a score of Turkish troops plus some armed Bedouin on the other. The raid occasioned the first aeromedical evacuation in the British Army.

The raid was the third of three actions fought by British forces seeking to recapture the Sinai Peninsula during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) cavalry and camelry traveled into the centre of the Sinai Peninsula to attack and push the last Turkish garrisons back into Palestine.