Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A ranar 13 ga watan Agusta, 1915, Janar Sir John Nixon, wanda ke jagorantar rundunar Sojan Indiya ta D a Mesopotamiya, ya nemi daya daga cikin rundunonin sojan Indiya a Faransa a matsayin karfafawa don ci gabansa a kan Bagadaza. Ba zato ba tsammani, a wannan ranar, Sakataren Harkokin Wajen Indiya, Austen Chamberlain, ya gaya wa Viceroy na Indiya cewa yana ɗokin janye sojojin Indiya daga Faransa kafin su jimre da wani hunturu. Tsarin samar da daftarin aiki ya lalace kuma rundunonin Indiya suna kara raunana bayan asarar da suka yi. Kodayake Sakataren Gwamnati na Yaƙi, Lord Kitchener, ya yi adawa da janyewarsu daga Yammacin Yamma, an ba da umarni a ranar 31 ga Oktoba don ƙungiyoyi biyu na Corps na Indiya (Raya na 3 (Lahore) da na 7 (Meerut) Division) don shiga jirgin ruwa a Marseilles don Mesopotamiya. An sauya rundunar sojojin Indiya a layin gaba a ranar 6 ga Nuwamba ta XI Corps kuma ana sa ran rundunonin biyu za su kasance a Basra a watan Disamba, amma an jinkirta tashi daga Marseilles saboda tsoron harin jirgin ruwa. Rukunin 3 (Lahore) a ƙarshe ya isa Mesopotamiya a watan Afrilu 1916 kuma ya shiga cikin Tigris Corps, ya yi latti don sauƙaƙe Rukunin 6 (Poona) a
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