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13th Division

Tidworth

Aug 1914

13th Division

Aldershot

Feb 1915

13th Division

Embarked for Gallipoli

15 Jul 1915

Gallipoli

13th Division

Sulva

6-21 Aug 1915

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Landing at Sulva

6-15 Aug 1915

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Battle of Sari Bair
(Company at Dere)

6-10 Aug 1915

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Russells Top

7 Aug 1915

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Scimitar Hill

21 Aug 1915

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Hill 60

27-28 Aug 1915

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Evacuation from
Sulva to Mudros

19-20 Dec 1915

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Mudros to Helles

27-31 Dec 1915

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Last attack at Helles

7 Jan 1916

13th Division

Evacuation from
Helles to Mudros

8-9 Jan 1916

13th Division

Embarked for Egypt

31 Jan 1916

Egypt

13th Division

Left Port Said by rail for Suez

12 Feb 1916

13th Division

Embarked at Suez

13 Feb 1916

13th Division

Sailed for Basra

14 Feb 1916

Mesopotamia

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Disembarked at Basra

27 Feb 1916

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Moved up the Tigris River

2 Mar 1916

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At Shaikh Saad

27 Mar 1916

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3rd Attempt to relieve Kut.
Capture of Hanna & Fallahiya

5 Apr 1916

13th Division

Attack on Sanniyat

9 Apr 1916

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Bait Isa

17-18 Apr 1916

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Second attack on Sanniyat

22 Apr 1916

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Battle of Kut Al Amara

9 Jan – 24 Feb 1917

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Capture of Hai Salient

25 Jan – 5 Feb 1917

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Capture of Dara Bend

9-16 Feb 1917

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Battle of Baghdad

25 Feb – 10 Mar 1917

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Pursuit to Baghdad
Passage of the Diyala River

7-10 Mar 1917

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Occupation of Baghdad

11 Mar 1917

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Delli Abbas

27-28 Mar 1917

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Duqma

29 Mar 1917

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Nahr Kalie

9-15 Apr 1917

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Passage of the Adhaim River

18 Apr 1917

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Shatt Al Adhaim

30 Apr 1917

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Action at Jabal Hamrin

18-20 Oct 1917

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Action at Jabal Hamrin

3-6 Dec 1917

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Tuz Khurmatli

29 Apr 1918

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Tauq

5 May 1918

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Kirkuk

8 May 1918

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Retired through Taza Khurmatli, Tauq and Tuz Khurmatli

24 May 1918

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Kifri

28 Aug 1918

REFERENCE:

  1. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, 1925-1932.
  2. GASE, S. Movements of Royal Engineers Companies.