Mosul
MOSUL: Mosul was a critical defensive position and served as the headquarters for the XII Army Corps at the beginning of the Great War. The Turks incarcerated British and Indian prisoners captured at Kut-al-Amara in Mosul. The city was located in the Vilayet of Mosul in eastern Kurdistan, on the west bank of the Tigris River. The city was 220 miles north-northwest of Baghdad and lay on the Constantinople to Baghdad Railway line.