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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [188r] (380/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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OPERATIONS ROUND SHIRAZ
327
learning this, Colonel Orton, who was carrying out a tactical
exercise that morning with the Indian troops, decided to give
his young officers and men a practical lesson by driving the
enemy out of Bagh-i-Janat and Kushan and thus possibly also
causing him to evacuate Masjid-i-Bardi. A few shells and
some long-range machine gun fire drove some 300 Kazerunis
out of Bagh-i-Janat and Kushan, which places were then
occupied after a little skirmishing. A few more shells were
then fired from near Bagh-i-Janat into Chenar-i-Rahdar post and
these had the effect of causing about 200 more tribesmen to
vacate the gardens towards Masjid-i-Bardi. Colonel Orton's
force broke off the action at noon and retired to Shiraz without
being pressed by the enemy, having learnt some useful lessons
at the cost of one man wounded. The enemy's casualties were
subsequently ascertained to have totalled 20 .
On the 13th June the enemy cut the stream which provided
the main water supply for the city and the motive power for
most of the local flour mills. But as the British had good
wells within their defensive perimeter, the townspeople were
the main sufferers. Muhammad Ali Khan, Kashquli, having
by this time informed Colonel Gough that he was ready to
assist the British by trying to get men away from Saulat, was
sent ammunition and money, but was told to refrain from active
opposition to the enemy.
During the night 14th/15th June the Rajput post at Afifabad
beat off a heavy attack by Kazerunis, killing and wounding
about 18, at a loss to themselves of only 3 casualties. Next
morning some of the enemy were shelled out of the gardens
about a mile west of the main British position, and twenty
rifles of the Rajputs were sent to reinforce the Afifabad garrison.
In the city, mullahs started to incite the population against
the British and against all Persians who served or helped them.
This agitation was evidently intended to bring about a rising
to coincide with the attack which Saulat had written to say
that he would shortly make on the British, and which, it was
understood, would be carried out on the 17th or 18th.
Learning that evening (15th) that there were about thirteen
hundred tribesmen, mainly Kazerunis, along the Ahmadabad-
Kushan-Masjid-i-Bardi line, another three or four hundred
under Nasir Diwan at Chenar-i-Rahdar and between two and
three thousand Qashqais under Saulat at Deh Shaikh, Colonel
Orton decided to take the offensive next day, so as to upset
Saulat's plans by inflicting a large number of casualties on the
tribesmen.
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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