Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 18 ga Janairu 1916 13th (W) Division ya fara shiga Masar kuma a ƙarshen watan ya tattara a Port Said. Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Younghusband, DSO, an daukaka shi daga mai taimakawa na 1/5th Bn Bedfordshire Regiment zuwa umurnin 7th Gloucesters a ranar 24 ga Janairu. Rukunin ya ɗauki matsayi a cikin tsaron Canal na Suez, amma a ranar 8 ga Fabrairu an umurce shi zuwa gaban Mesopotamian. Bayar da mukamai a ranar 12 ga Fabrairu sojojin farko sun tafi ta jirgin kasa zuwa Suez inda suka shiga SS "Simla" zuwa Basra, suna isa ranar 27 ga Fabrairu. A nan akwai cutar zazzabi a cikin 7th Gloucesters kuma an bar battalion a baya lokacin da sauran rukunin suka tashi Tigris a watan Maris. Don haka ya rasa jerin farko na yunƙurin sauƙaƙe garuruwan da aka kewaye da Kut Al Amara
, kawai tafiya zuwa Tigris ta hanyar kogin kogin don sake komawa sashen a ranar 18 ga Afrilu a lokaci don sabon harin.