Battle of Samakh

Battle of Samakh
Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
German Headquarters, Samakh
Date 25 September 1918 Location Samakh on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias) Result Australian Light Horse victory
Belligerents
British Empire  Australia	Ottoman Empire  German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Edmund Allenby Harry Chauvel Henry West Hodgson William Grant	Otto Liman von Sanders Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Cevat Çobanlı known as Jevad
Units involved
Australian Mounted Division 4th Light Horse Brigade's Headquarters 11th Light Horse Regiment 12th Light Horse Regiment 4th Machine Gun Squadron	Yildirim Army Group remnants from the Seventh Army Eighth Army formed into rearguard
Casualties and losses
17 killed, 60 wounded, 1 missing	28 killed 33 wounded, 331 unwounded prisoners

British Empire

The Battle of Samakh was fought on 25 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought from 19 to 25 September 1918, in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. During the cavalry phase of the Battle of Sharon the Desert Mounted Corps commanded by the Australian Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel, captured the Esdraelon Plain (also known as the Jezreel Valley and the Plain of Armageddon) 40–50 miles (64–80 km) behind the front line in the Judean Hills on 20 September, when the 3rd Light Horse Brigade captured Jenin. The 4th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Mounted Division was deployed guarding supply columns, and prisoners, before being ordered to attack and capture Samakh on the shore of the Sea of Gallilee. Here the Ottoman and German garrison had been ordered by the commander of the Yildirim Army Group to fight to the last man.

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