Assyrian volunteers

Assyrian volunteers
Assyrian volunteers
	The flag that was raised by General Agha Petros Elia of Baz, commander of the Assyrian forces during World War 1
Active	1914–1919
Allegiance	Allies of World War I
Size	20,000+ (at their height) 6,000 (under the command of Agha Petros and Malik Khoshaba);
Engagements	Middle Eastern theatre of World War I Persian Campaign Hakkari Expedition 1916; Hakkari Expedition 1917; Battle of Seray Mountain; Urmia Clashes; Battle of Charah; Battle of Suldouze; Battle of Urmia April 1918; Battle of Urmia June 1918; Battle of Sauj Bulak; Battle of Slamas the first; Battle of Slamas the second; Battle of Derbend; Mesopotamian campaign Battle of Sharqat; Battle of Mosul 1918; Assyrian rebellion Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922); Simko Shikak revolt (1926);
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Agha Petros; Malik Khoshaba; Dawid Mar Shimun; Mar Shimun Benyamin (spiritual leader)

The Assyrian volunteers were an ethnic Assyrian military force during WW1, led mainly by General Agha Petros Elia of Baz and several tribal leaders known as Maliks (Syriac: ܡܠܟ) under the spiritual leadership of the Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Shimun Benyamin allied with the Entente Powers described by the English pastor and author William A. Wigram as Our Smallest Ally.^[3] The Assyrian volunteers were described as “the Christian army of Revenge” by the British Major E.W.C. Noel.

^ The French gave us 20,000 Lebel rifles, whilst several French officers, together with the few Russian officers who had remained behind, set about organisms our Assyro-Chaldean army, the numbers of which had grown to more than 20,000
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "آغا بطرس: سنحاريب القرن العشرين" (PDF). نينوس نيراري. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-12.
^ Wigram, William Ainger (1920). Our Smallest Ally ; Wigram, W[illiam] A[inger] ; A Brief Account of the Assyrian Nation in the Great War. Introd. by General H.H. Austin. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

[1] The French gave us 20,000 Lebel rifles, whilst several French officers, together with the few Russian officers who had remained behind, set about organisms our Assyro-Chaldean army, the numbers of which had grown to more than 20,000

[Senchar-2] "آغا بطرس: سنحاريب القرن العشرين" (PDF). نينوس نيراري. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-12.

[3] Wigram, William Ainger (1920). Our Smallest Ally ; Wigram, W[illiam] A[inger] ; A Brief Account of the Assyrian Nation in the Great War. Introd. by General H.H. Austin. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

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