The flag that was raised by General Agha Petros Elia of Baz, commander of the Assyrian forces during World War 1
Active
1914–1919
Allegiance
Allies of World War I
Size
20,000+ (At their height)[1]
6,000 (Under the command of Agha Petros and Malik Khoshaba)
Engagements
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Persian Campaign
Hakkari Expedition 1916
Hakkari Expedition 1917
Battle of Seray Mountain
Urmia Clashes
Battle of Charah
Battle of Suldouze
Battle of Urmia April 1918
Battle of Urmia June 1918
Battle of Sauj Bulak
Battle of Slamas the first[2]
Battle of Slamas the second[2]
Battle of Derbend[2]
Mesopotamian campaign
Battle of Sharqat
Battle of Mosul 1918
Assyrian rebellion
Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922)[2]
Simko Shikak revolt (1926)[2]
Commanders
Notable commanders
Agha Petros Malik Khoshaba Dawid Mar Shimun Mar Shimun Benyamin (Spiritual leader)
Military unit
The Assyrian volunteers was an ethnic Assyrian military force during WW1, led mainly by General Agha Petros Elia of Baz and several tribal leaders known as Maliks (Syriac: ܡܠܟ) under the spiritual leadership of the Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Shimun Benyamin allied with the Entente Powers described by the English pastor and author William A. Wigram as Our Smallest Ally.[3]
^The French gave us 20,000 Lebel rifles, whilst several French officers, together with the few Russian officers who had remained behind, set about organisms our Assyro-Chaldean army, the numbers of which had grown to more than 20,000
^ abcde"آغا بطرس: سنحاريب القرن العشرين" (PDF). نينوس نيراري. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-12.
^Wigram, William Ainger (1920). Our Smallest Ally ; Wigram, W[illiam] A[inger] ; A Brief Account of the Assyrian Nation in the Great War. Introd. by General H.H. Austin. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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