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'From Gaza to Jerusalem: The Palestine Campaigns of 1917’

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ONLINE EVENT     'From Gaza to Jerusalem: The Palestine Campaigns of 1917’   At the start of 1917, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force stood at the gates of Gaza in southern Palestine.  The early months of the year saw two bloody failures to break through the Ottoman lines between Gaza and Beersheba.  After a summer of retraining, reinforcement, an...


The Palestine Campaign - A Talk by Dr John Peaty preceded by brief branch AGM

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Following three battles to break into Palestine at Gaza, the capture of Jerusalem and a spectacular victory at Megiddo (Armageddon) which finally broke the enemy forces, the Holy Land was freed from Turkish rule. John Peaty is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. He holds a PhD and MA in War Studies fro...