The reinforcing of General Aylmer's Kut Relief Force: Troops going up the Tigris on board...

The siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British-Indian garrison in the town of Kut, 100 miles south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915, its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on April 29, 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo; James Morris, a British historian, described the loss of Kut as "the most abject capitulation in Britain’s military history."disastrous defeat for British by Turkish army;