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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The XX Corps was an army corps of the British Army that was formed in Palestine in 1917. Following the British failure in the Second Battle of Gaza, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force underwent a major rearrangement with the appointment of General Edmund Allenby as the new Commander-in-Chief. The infantry component of the force was divided into two corps; XX Corps and XXI Corps. The XX Corps was commanded by General Philip Chetwode, formerly the commander of the Desert Column. The XX Corps first saw action in the Beersheba phase of the Third Battle of…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The XX Corps was an army corps of the British Army that was formed in Palestine in 1917. Following the British failure in the Second Battle of Gaza, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force underwent a major rearrangement with the appointment of General Edmund Allenby as the new Commander-in-Chief. The infantry component of the force was divided into two corps; XX Corps and XXI Corps. The XX Corps was commanded by General Philip Chetwode, formerly the commander of the Desert Column. The XX Corps first saw action in the Beersheba phase of the Third Battle of Gaza on October 31, 1917. The 60th and 74th Divisions captured Turkish outposts west of the town but were not involved in the final assault.