) Allenby's tank force was also returned to France.

Though Allenby's deceptions did not induce Liman to concentrate his forces against the River Jordan flank, Allenby was nevertheless able to concentrate a force superior to the Ottoman XXII Corps by nearly five to one in infantry and even more in artillery on the Mediterranean flank, where the main attack was to be made, undetected by the Ottomans.

During the concentration of Allenby's force on the western end of the front line, German and Ottoman aircraft were unable to carry out reliable aerial reconnaissances as the British and Australian aircraft had virtually complete dominance of the skies.

His partners, including Geoff Ogilvy, were displeased with Allenby's remarks.

Further Allenby's staff disseminated a mass of false information and clues, including a grand race meeting to be held on the day the battle began.

Four of Allenby's infantry divisions ( the 10th, 53rd, 60th and 75th ) were reformed on the pattern of British Indian Army, with three Indian and one British infantry battalion in each brigade.

On 29 September he had outlined plans for Allenby's Third Army to rejoin the battle in the north around Gommecourt and for the Fourth Army to attack towards Cambrai.

As Allenby's reorganisation proceeded, the Arab Northern Army ( part of the Arab Revolt ) was operating east of the Jordan under the overall leadership of the Emir Feisal.

Under the Yildirim Army Group were, from west to east: the Ottoman Eighth Army ( Jevad Pasha ) which held the front from the Mediterranean coast to the Judean Hills with five divisions ( one of which had recently arrived at Et Tire, a few miles behind the front lines ), a cavalry division and the German " Pasha II " detachment, equivalent to a regiment ; the Seventh Army ( Mustafa Kemal Pasha ) which held the front in the Judean Hills to the Jordan River with four divisions and a German regiment ; and the Fourth Army ( Jemal Mersinli Pasha ), which was divided into two groups: one faced the bridgeheads which Allenby's forces had seized over the Jordan with two divisions, while the other defended Amman and Ma ' an and the Hejaz Railway against attacks by Arab forces with two divisions, a cavalry division and some miscellaneous detachments.

Once nothing stood between Allenby's forces and Mustafa Kemal's Seventh Army in Nablus, Kemal decided that he lacked sufficient men to fight the British forces.

A diversionary attack was to be made on the northern flank by two divisions of General Edmund Allenby's Third Army.

As part of General Sir Edmund Allenby's Third Army, the 46th Division was involved in the diversion at Gommecourt on the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916.

Allenby's advance by comparison made considerable territorial gains, helped secure Baghdad and the oilfields at Basra in Mesopotamia, encouraged the Arab Revolt, and inflicted irreplaceable losses on the Ottoman Army.

Many of Allenby's men said after the war that they were willing to tolerate his strictness and rigidity because he gave the impression that he was in control of the situation, a feeling which Murray never inspired in his soldiers.

The Battle of Jaffa saw the passage of the Nahr El Auja, on the night of 20 – 21 December 1917, by the division's three Brigades, which according to General Sir Edmund Allenby's despatch " reflects great credit on the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division.

Later in the year, the Hashemite warriors made a series of small raids on Ottoman positions in support of General Allenby's winter attack on the Gaza-Bersheeba defensive line which led to the Battle of Beersheba ).

In November 1917, as aid to Allenby's offensive, Lawrence launched a deep-raiding party into the Yarmouk River valley, which failed to destroy the railroad bridge at Tel ash-Shehab, but which succeeded in ambushing and destroying the train of General Mehemd Cemal Pasha, the commander of the Ottoman VII Corps.

Eventually, Ottoman and German reconnaissance aircraft could not even take off without being engaged by British or Australian fighters, and could therefore not see through Allenby's deceptions, nor spot the true Allied concentration which was concealed in orange groves and plantations.

After the armistice he attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and was Edmund Allenby's Chief Political Officer, involved in the creation of the Palestine Mandate, which eventually led to the creation of the state of Israel.

The forces at Allenby's disposal were also expanded and the ad-hoc nature of Murray's army structure was replaced with a more conventional arrangement.

This number however probably applies to the Arab regulars who fought with Allenby's main army, and not the irregular forces under the direction of Lawrence and Feisal.

He was created by the screenwriters to " represent the civilian and political wing of British interests, to balance Allenby's military objectives.

It was asserted soon after, by Chaim Weizmann and British army Lieutenant Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, that al-Husseini had been put up to inciting the riot by British Field-marshal Allenby's Chief of Staff, Colonel Bertie Harry Waters-Taylor, to demonstrate to the world that Arabs would not tolerate a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Sir John, concerned that he had only four infantry divisions rather than the planned six, wanted to keep Allenby's cavalry division in reserve, and refused Lanrezac's request that he lend it for reconnaissance in front of the French forces ( Lanrezac misunderstood that French intended to use the British cavalry as mounted infantry ).

His forces halted their retreat and dug in to resist the British, even reoccupying some ground near the Jordan as Allenby's two raids across the Jordan to Amman and Es Salt were repulsed.

Just before the capture of Jerusalem, the British War Office had been very worried about Allenby's extended advance and warned of a possible retirement back to Gaza and Beersheba if the war on the Western Front dictated the transfer of large numbers of troops from the Levant.

Allenby's great strategic successes from the end of October 1917 brought pressure from the British War Office to quickly finish the war in the Middle East.

In the second attack, Allenby's troops captured Es Salt on the road to Amman, but fell back when their communications were threatened.

Allenby's goal from the outset had been the annihilation of the Ottoman army in southern Palestine.

In particular, in the weeks following the failure of Allenby's second attack across the Jordan, they carried out demolitions on a stretch of line around Mudawara, due east of Aqaba, effectively closing the line for a month and ending Ottoman operations around Medina at the end of the railway.

Laborious efforts were therefore made to prevent the Ottomans discerning Allenby's intentions and to persuade them that the next Entente attack would be made in the Jordan Valley.

In 1918, the Arab cavalry gained in strength ( as it seemed victory was at hand ) and they were able to provide Allenby's army with intelligence on Ottoman army positions.

By the summer of 1918, Allenby's forces were built back up to full strength.

Of course, even then it turned out that the killer was not supernatural at all, but merely Phyllis Allenby's aunt, Martha Winthrop.

In part due to these attacks, Allenby's last offensive, the Battle of Megiddo, was a stunning success.

There was a comparative lull in activity while Allenby's divisions were reorganised and retrained, but some local attacks were made, especially in the Judean Hills.

It took part in the successful Third Battle of Gaza as part of XXI Corps led by General Bulfin, and by the end of 1917 General Allenby's forces had taken Jerusalem.

During the first world war the Boy's School was commandeered by Turkish troops for use as a hospital during Allenby's assault on Palestine.

Although Haig paid tribute to Allenby for the plan's " great initial success ," Allenby's subordinates " objected to the way he handled the ... attritional stage.

In contrast to the fictional Allenby's words at Lawrence's funeral in the film, upon Lawrence's death Allenby remarked, " I have lost a good friend and a valued comrade.

The regiment was in the First and Second Battle of Ypres in France, at the Battle of the Somme, Allenby's attack at Arras, and at Longueval.