Battle of Abu Tellul was a battle fought in 1918 at Palestine. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Palestine. It was part of the Middle Eastern theater of World War I, which ran from 1914 to 1918. The recorded result: British Empire victory.
Where it sits in the Middle Eastern theater of World War I
96 placed engagements of the Middle Eastern theater of World War I in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.
Record
Date
1918 (year precision)
Place
Palestine 31.625N, 35.145E
Kind
Battle, First World War
Strength
15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade; 1st Light Horse Brigade; B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company
Ottoman 24th Division (supported by two German battalions)
Casualties and losses
189 including 23 killed, 46 wounded Australian Light Horsemen
About 1,000; 105 killed, 45 wounded, 425–540 captured
Commanders
Henry Macandrew
Charles Frederick Cox
Cyril Harbord
Placed at Palestine; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.
Battle of Abu Tellul is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 43 in present-day Palestine.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2903842, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Abu Tellul, revision 1370430852, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.