19th Infantry Division (Ottoman Empire)


The 19th Infantry Division was a formation of the Ottoman Army, during the Balkan Wars and the First World War. Two thirds of the division was made up of Syrian Arabs, who faced the first wave of the Allied invasion during the Gallipoli campaign, and one third were Turks.

Formation

The 18th and 27th Regiments were also assigned to the division later in the Gallipoli campaign.