Egyptian soldiers feigned illness to escape front-line duty.

Evidence

At the same time soldiers, and occasionally officers, often feigned sickness to avoid being sent to the front and to have a pretext for staying in the relative security of the field hospital. Cadets in military school sometimes acted similarly; on being sent to the hospital it would soon be noticed that they had not lost their appetite and that “each one of them was eating as much as four.” Officers who were discovered to have been cheating in this manner were discharged from service altogether, sent to the Liman of Alexandria, and were stripped of their medals and uniforms. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1154

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Egyptian soldiers faked illness to dodge frontline duty and stay in hospitals (similarity 0.93)
• Hospitalized Egyptian soldiers violently resisted medical authority. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian peasants blinded and mutilated themselves to evade conscription. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian peasants maimed themselves to escape conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian conscripts resisted the Pasha’s army through desertion and self-mutilation (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian army punished soldiers caught feigning illness with combat duty (similarity 0.84)
• Returning Egyptian soldiers mutinied rather than endure quarantine. (similarity 0.83)
• Turkish officers routinely abused and cheated their Egyptian conscript soldiers (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian peasants mutilated themselves to dodge conscription yet were drafted anyway. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian peasant conscripts hated the army so much they deserted and maimed themselves. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian soldiers mutinied, held officers prisoner, and were slaughtered when they tried to desert (similarity 0.81)
• Conscripted Egyptian soldiers saw the army as hated brutal coercion (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian conscripts served Mehmed Ali’s army entirely against their will (similarity 0.80)
• The new Egyptian army suppressed a peasant revolt by killing thousands including kin (similarity 0.80)
• Fellahin resistance to Mehmed Ali’s conscription was pervasive. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian conscripts resisted the Pasha’s army through desertion and self-mutilation #expands (0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1701
• Egyptian peasants maimed themselves to escape conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army #complicates (0.55) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1352
• Egyptian peasants blinded and mutilated themselves to evade conscription. #corroborates (0.50) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1306
• Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army #corroborates (0.45) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 41
• Egyptian conscripts experienced the army as a hated, lifelong ordeal #corroborates (0.40) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1394