Raid on the Suez Canal

Raid on the Suez Canal
	Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
	; Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba, 1915
Date	26 January – 4 February 1915; (1 week and 2 days)
Location	Suez Canal, Egypt
Result	British victory
Belligerents
British Empire Egypt; India; United Kingdom;	Ottoman Empire German Empire (military officers);
Commanders and leaders
John Maxwell; Egypt Ahmad Helmy †	Djemal Pasha; F. K. von Kressenstein
Strength
30,000	20,000; Other estimates:; 11,400 (400 officers and 11,000 soldiers)
Casualties and losses
32 killed, 130 wounded	1,500 casualties (including ~700 prisoners)

The Raid on the Suez Canal, also known as Actions on the Suez Canal, took place between 26 January and 4 February 1915 when a German-led Ottoman Army force advanced from Southern Palestine to attack the British Empire-protected Suez Canal, marking the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) of World War I (1914–1918).

Substantial Ottoman forces crossed the Sinai peninsula, but their attack failed – mainly because of strongly held defences and alert defenders.

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