Battle of Mount Hamrin

Battle Of Mount Hamrin
	Part of the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I
Date	25 March 1917
Location	Near Mount Hamrin and the Diyala River, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Diyala Governorate, Iraq)
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
British Empire India; United Kingdom;	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Major General Henry D'Urban Keary	Ali Ishan Bey
Units involved
8th (Jullundur) and 9th (Sirhind) Brigades	XIII Corps of the Ottoman 6th Army
Strength
8,000 men	4,500 men ; 20 guns
Casualties and losses
1,200 men	Unknown, less than British Empire

The Battle of Mount Hamrin was an unsuccessful British effort to cut off part of the Ottoman Sixth Army after the capture of Baghdad during the Mesopotamia campaign during the First World War.

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