KİLİS ASKERLİK ŞUBESİ REİSİ SAKALLI AHZ-I ASKER BİNBAŞISI MAHMUT BEY’İN BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI (GAZZE CEPHESİ)’NA GİDEN ASKERLERE YAPTIĞI KONUŞMA VE KİLİS ASKERLİK ŞUBESİ’NİN KİLİS KUVAY-I MİLLİYESİNE KATKILARI

The World War I, yielded devastating result for the Ottoman’s which was seen in every corner of Anatolia. Motherland lost sons of soil fight for their motherland and had seen a worst massacre of history, when families have lost valuable lives of all youth, old children alike. War left behind nothing but the gloomy Picture of war, leaving behind widows with small children on the mercy of no one. Nonetheless during the aforementuned war, the nation displayed extremly high level of national character, morale and coruage under extremely diffucult circumstances. Hundreds and thousands people volunteered themselves for war recruitment in competition with each other. Men were found queued up the Gates of recruiting offices all over the country. At the recruiting offices, the officers served as a bridge between the recruits and actual figthing tpoops. Recruits were instructed sequsite level training about the war situation and duties they were expected to perform. Like any other recruitment office, Kilis Recruitment Office did its best in training the recruits fort he war. Besides impartig battle oriented training, the recruits were also given the knowledge of their future future commanders on whose orders they would fight and die. Recruit training was not only confined to battle harden or mission oriented training but chief of recruitment Office also gave due importance to the wellfare of the troops. The wife of the chief helped the left behind families as an ambassador and acted like a biridge between the families and chief of recruitment office. As a requirement of the military customs recruitment offiices continue to perform these missions and as this duty continues , they will be the bidge between the units and their families.