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'Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I - Report' [155v] (315/424)
The record is made up of 1 volume (208 folios). It was created in 1925. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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(iv) The CGiistruction of a metre gauge line to Nasariya to supply
the force there, which protected the whole flank of the Tigris
Operation.
(v) The organization of the fighting area from Sheikh Saad onward
due to Sir S. Maude's successes and the eventual advance
resulting in the destruction of the Turkish army.
(vi) Hospital and recuperation depot construction.
(vii) Base development.
7. In the second phase vide 5(6), after the defeat destruction and
capture of a large portion of the Turkish Army in February 17, the
development took the following lines :—
i. Establishment of a river port at Kut and new section of L. of C.
ii. Move of advanced section L. of C. to Hinaidi anj Baghdad^
(Following on a temporary riverhead at Aziziya during the
advance to Baghdad.)
iii. Completion of through metre gauge Basra to Amara, replac
ing the earlier Qurna-Amara 2' 6" line. This involved big
bridges over the two branches of the Euphrates, one near
Basra, one at Qurna.
iv. Construction of a 2' 6" line Kut to Baghdad, eventually turned
to a metre gauge as material came forward.
8. Tn the third phase (para.5 c) came the organization of the advanced
section to enable the force at and round Baghdad, now growing to seven
divisions and 2 cavalry brigades, to fight the large remaining and xe-
enforced Turkish Forces. This consisted as follows :—
(i) Ke-organization of German standard gauge line to the upper
Tigris front.
(ii) Its extension to Hilla and Dibban (Euphrates). Hilla to tap
the grain country. Dibban to maintain the upper Euphrates
Force.
(iii) The continuation of the Kut-Baghdad metre gauge to Baquba
and eventually up to the Persian Frontier, also the construc
tion of the great north Persian motor road, constructed with
a view to extending operations as far as the Caspian.
(iv) Using the 2' 6" line material to push ahead before the metre
gauge material could arrive, and be brought up country.
9. The Euphrates. —During 1915, 1916 the Euphrates front was
served with difficulty via the Hammar lake, at the end of which the Akaika
bund had been cut to make the Akaika Channel navigable (compensation
being paid to Arabs where irrigation was thus injured). The arrival of
the metre gauge railway, altered the conditions, and the river above the
Hammar lake was only used for local communications.
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The volume is Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917. Compiled by officers of the Staff College, Quetta, October-November 1923. Part I - Report (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1925). The volume is published by the General Staff Army Headquarters, India.
The volume is divided into twenty-five chapters, which cover the whole campaign in detail from December 1914 to April 1917, including the origins of the campaign; the British advance on Baghdad-Ctesiphon; operations at Kut [Al-Kūt]; the capture of Baghdad; and general reflections on the campaign.
The volume includes nineteen photographic illustrations.
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- 1 volume (208 folios)
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There is a table of contents on folio 4. The volume also contains a list of illustrations (f 6) and list of maps and sketches that appear in Part II [IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2] (f 5). There is an index to the volume between ff 205-208.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 210 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the sequence used to determine the order of pages.
Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-361 (ff 8-208).
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