Lawrence of Arabia by David Murphy

Author:David Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lawrence Of Arabia
ISBN: 9781849088244
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Camel-mounted troops of the Indian Army crossing Sinai. During 1917 and 1918 Lawrence used Indian and Gurkha mortar and machine-gun teams to provide firepower for his tribal forces. (IWM Q103859)

Azrak Castle near Amman. This former Crusader castle served as Lawrence’s base for the Yarmuk Valley raid in November 1917. (IWM Q60022)

During this important raid Lawrence essentially tried to repeat the same methods that had brought him success at Aqaba. He planned to carry out a wide sweeping approach, travelling north-eastwards before basing himself at the partly-ruined Crusader castle at Azrak. He would travel with just a small party of tribesmen, as not many could be persuaded to travel so far north, although he did later recruit men of the Bani Shakr and the Serahiyyin at Azrak. He was accompanied by an Indian Army machine-gun team under Jamadar Hassan Shah and by Lieutenant Wood (Royal Engineers) and Trooper Throne (Yeomanry). Attached to his group was Abd al-Qadir (also Abd el-Kader), an Algerian exile in Syria and grandson of a guerrilla leader who had carried out a long campaign against the French in the 19th century. The head of the French mission, Colonel Brémond, had warned Lawrence that he suspected al-Qadir of being a Turkish spy, of which Lawrence took no notice.

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