buongiorno a tutti qualcuno conosce la composizione delle forze britanniche (compresi i dominion) in Egitto all'entrata in guerra dell'impero ottomano? grazie
"The personnel available to man these defences was almost exclusively Indian. Two Indian divisions (the 10th and 11th ), along with the Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade, shared the responsibility with some Egyptian and Territorial artillery batteries. The East Lancashire Division, as well as the Australian and New Zealand contingents, formed a reserve, making the grand total of 64,230 in Egypt. But the situation was not nearly as reassuring as these figures seemed to suggest. Maxwell held the Territorial and Antipodeans in reserve because they required further training. As for the Indian divisions the very term 'division' was misleading; in reality, they were brigades thrown together in order to create divisions, but they lacked sufficient staff, artillery and divisional troops. Nor did they even have the usual proportion of British battalions like other Indian divisions." British military policy in Egypt and Palestine: August 1914 - June 1917, Newell J.Q.C. Dati precisi è difficile trovarli, le statistiche precise sul British order of battle di solito si trovano aggiornate al primo agosto.
