9th Infantry Division (Ottoman Empire)

The 9th Infantry Division was a formation of the Ottoman Turkish Army, during the Balkan Wars, and the First World War.

Gallipoli Campaign

Two thirds of the 19th Division were Syrians under Colonel Mustafa Kemal (Kemal Atatürk). The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later. "Two thirds of the troops who made up his (colonel Mustafa Kemal) 19th Division that faced the first wave of the Allied invasion were Syrian Arabs, comprising the 72nd and 77th regiments of the Ottoman army", according to Bill Sellars, Australian writer and historian.

Formation

25th Infantry Regiment

26th Infantry Regiment

27th Infantry Regiment

References

Footnotes

Sources

• Bean, Charles (1941) [1921]. The Story of Anzac from 4 May 1915, to the Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Vol. II (11th ed.). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 39157087.
• Erickson, Edward J. (2001) [2000]. Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-31516-9.
• McKay, Jim (2018-05-24). Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli. Springer. ISBN 978-981-13-0026-4.
• Tamari, Salim; Turjman, Ihsan Salih (2011-05-07). Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25955-3.