ghuzzeh

Updated: May 11, 2025

There are other ridges lying about the town, which were afterwards incorporated in the defensive schemes of the Turks and of ourselves. The geographical feature of principal military importance in this neighbourhood is the Wadi Ghuzzeh. This wadi is a watercourse, which, in times of rain, carries off the water from the hills between Beersheba and the Dead Sea.

H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock - With the British Army in The Holy Land

We then marched back some four miles to the Dorset House area, where we at once got started on intensive training for open warfare, varied with some very hurried musketry in the Wadi Ghuzzeh.

D. Douglas Ogilvie - The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry: and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919

To add to the difficulties of darkness and unknown ground, the line of advance ran diagonally across a ridge running from the Turkish position to the Wadi Ghuzzeh. That the Brigade arrived at its destination without a hitch reflects great credit on the Staff work and is evidence of the benefit we had obtained from night training at el Arish.

Great Britain. Army. Highland Light Infantry. Battalion - The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918