Order of battle for the Battle of Dumlupınar explained

On August 1922 during the Battle of Dumlupınar, the opposing armies were deployed as follows:

Greek order of battle

In summer 1922, the Greek Army of Asia Minor (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Στρατιά Μικράς Ασίας) held a front of 713 km, extending from Cius in the Sea of Marmara south-east to a bulge around Eskişehir, thence south to Afyonkarahisar, where it turned west and south over the Akar Dağ Mountain and then followed the right bank of the Büyük Menderes River to the Aegean Sea. The line had been established following the retreat of autumn 1921, after the Battle of Sakarya.[1] The Army of Asia Minor had its headquarters in Smyrna (Izmir) and was commanded by Lieutenant General Georgios Hatzianestis, with Major General Georgios Valettas as his chief of staff. It comprised a force of 220,000 men, of whom 140,000 were situated at the front but only 80,000 were counted as front-line combatants. The Army's equipment comprised 264 field guns, 980 machine guns and 2,592 sub-machine guns, as well as 55 aircraft.[1]

The northern sector of the front, from the Marmara Sea to around Eskişehir, was covered by the III Corps, and the southern sector, a wide bulge around Afyonkarahisar, by the I Corps with II Corps as its immediate reserve. The remaining southern sector of the front along the Menderes was lightly held by rear-echelon units under the Smyrna Superior General Military Command (Ανώτερη Γενική Στρατιωτική Διοίκηση Σμύρνης).[2] The Greek combat units were structured as follows, from north to south:[3]

Due to lack of forces, the 1st Division left 10-kilometre sector at the Çay Hisar ravine was left uncovered, and a further 6-kilometre gap existed between the lines of the 1st and 4th Divisions.[4]

Turkish order of battle

Commander in chief (Müşir Mustafa Kemal Pasha)

Chief of the General Staff (Birinci Ferik Mustafa Fevzi Pasha)

Minister of National Defence: Mirliva Kâzım Pasha

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Notes and References

  1. Despotopoulos (1978), p. 201
  2. Despotopoulos (1978), pp. 201–202, 205
  3. Despotopoulos (1978), pp. 201–202
  4. Despotopoulos (1978), p. 202

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