Mesopotamia - Adhaim

[jaco]

On page 173 of 'Battles on the Tigris',Ron Wilcox records that "...half the South Wales Borderers in the village (Adhaim) were captured.....and taken by the Turkish X111 Corps in the direction of Tikrit".

What happened to them?

My uncle, then a 19 year old Corporal 34568 Jack/John Moore, S.W.Borderers, was not captured, but he was wounded in the battle and invalided out to India with N.C.O's of thr 90th Punjabi's. How would they have got there?

Would the bureacrats of the Indian Civil Service have recorded particulars of medical treatment provided by the Indian Hospital (Poona ?) ?

Any help will be gratefully received

Eslin

[Ron]

On page 173 of 'Battles on the Tigris',Ron Wilcox records that "...half the South Wales Borderers in the village (Adhaim) were captured.....and taken by the Turkish X111 Corps in the direction of Tikrit".

What happened to them?

My uncle, then a 19 year old Corporal 34568 Jack/John Moore, S.W.Borderers, was not captured, but he was wounded in the battle and invalided out to India with N.C.O's of thr 90th Punjabi's. How would they have got there?

Would the bureacrats of the Indian Civil Service have recorded particulars of medical treatment provided by the Indian Hospital (Poona ?) ?

Any help will be gratefully received

Eslin

The prisoners were taken to Turkey and some were employed by the German contractors who were building the Berlin to Baghdad Railway although by that date the Turks had lost Baghdad. Others ended up in prison camps. None had a very happy time although the Germans treated the prisoners reasonably well but poor food, disease and inadequate medical treatment resulted in a number of deaths. In 1918 they were swiftly released under the supervision of officer prisoners who had been taken by the Turks and returned home soon after the Armistice.

Wounded travelled, some by motor ambulance, to the River Tigris and the Army used a variety of river craft to transport them down the shallow and winding river to Basra Hospital where, when they were fit to travel, they were taken to India for recuperation.

I doubt if you will find any records of the Hospital in India or in England although you could inquire of the Army Museum in London.

Ron

[jaco]

The prisoners were taken to Turkey and some were employed by the German contractors who were building the Berlin to Baghdad Railway although by that date the Turks had lost Baghdad. Others ended up in prison camps. None had a very happy time although the Germans treated the prisoners reasonably well but poor food, disease and inadequate medical treatment resulted in a number of deaths. In 1918 they were swiftly released under the supervision of officer prisoners who had been taken by the Turks and returned home soon after the Armistice.

Wounded travelled, some by motor ambulance, to the River Tigris and the Army used a variety of river craft to transport them down the shallow and winding river to Basra Hospital where, when they were fit to travel, they were taken to India for recuperation.

I doubt if you will find any records of the Hospital in India or in England although you could inquire of the Army Museum in London.

Ron

[jaco]

Thanks Ron

Pretty grim being a prisoner

Best regards

eslin