Battle of Tabsor (1918)

Battle of Tabsor
Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Anebta on the Tulkarm to Nablus road
Date 19–20 September 1918 Location Tabsor trench system stretching east to west of Tabsor village; to Et Tire Result Entente victory
Belligerents
British Empire  Great Britain  British India	Ottoman Empire  German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Edmund Allenby Edward Bulfin	Fevsi Pasha Otto Liman von Sanders Jevad Pasha Gustav von Oppen
Units involved
Egyptian Expeditionary Force XXI Corps's 3rd (Lahore) Division 7th (Meerut) Division 75th Division	Yildirim Army Group Eighth Army Ottoman XXII Corps Asia Corps

XXI Corps's

The Battle of Tabsor was fought on 19–20 September 1918 beginning the Battle of Sharon, which along with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. During the infantry phase of the Battle of Sharon the British Empire 60th Division, XXI Corps attacked and captured the section of the front line nearest the Mediterranean coast under cover of an intense artillery barrage including a creeping barrage and naval gunfire. This Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) victory over the entrenched Ottoman Eighth Army, composed of German and Ottoman soldiers, began the Final Offensive, ultimately resulting in the destruction of the equivalent of one Ottoman army, the retreat of what remained of two others, and the capture of many thousands of prisoners and many miles of territory from the Judean Hills to the border of modern-day Turkey. After the end of the battle of Megiddo, the Desert Mounted Corps pursued the retreating soldiers to Damascus, six days later. By the time the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire five weeks later, Aleppo had been captured.

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