Raid on Bir el Hassana

Raid on Bir el Hassana
Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Map of Sinai Peninsula
Date 13–21 February 1917 (1 week and 1 day) Location Central Sinai Peninsula Result Retreat of last Ottoman garrisons out of the Sinai
Belligerents
British Empire Sultanate of Egypt  United Kingdom  Australia  India	Ottoman Empire Sinai Bedouin
Commanders and leaders
Major J.R. Bassett
Units involved
2nd Battalion (British), Imperial Camel Corps Hong Kong and Singapore (Mountain) Battery
Strength
	22 Ottoman troops plus armed Bedouins
Casualties and losses
1 wounded	22 prisoners

The Raid on Bir el Hassana (Hasna) occurred in the Sinai Peninsula in February 1917, during World War I. It was a minor action between an augmented battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps on the one side and a score of Turkish troops plus some armed Bedouin on the other. The raid occasioned the first aeromedical evacuation in the British Army.

The raid was the third of three actions fought by British forces seeking to recapture the Sinai Peninsula during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) cavalry and camelry traveled into the centre of the Sinai Peninsula to attack and push the last Turkish garrisons back into Palestine.