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The scene of war
Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor (1869–), 1917
Named on the page for Battle of Ctesiphon (1915).
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22–25 November 1915
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)
BASRA 399
story has reached the Bazaars. General Town- shend has indeed won a great fight at Ctesiphon, but his casualties have been very heavy, and the Turk has been strongly reinforced, and we are in retreat, fighting a rearguard action as we fall back. Then comes the news that our force has reached Kut-el-Amara and is invested, and the Commander -in -Chief and his staff alone have managed to reach Basra. There is one grain of comfort, however, for 1300 prisoners taken by us at Ctesiphon are paraded through the streets of Basra: tangible evidence, this, that our small force had given good account of itself.
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