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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [198v] (401/566)
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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346
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
towards compliance with the proposal, which H.M. Government
had made a month previously, to place all the British troops
in South Persia under a British brigadier-general, as a separate
command from the South Persia Rifles. He also asked for
Sir Percy Sykes' views on this proposal and learnt in reply
that, in the latter's opinion, it would not only cause com
plications and duplication in administration but would involve
additional staffs and extra expense.
Affairs in Kerman remained quiet. The reinforcements from
India which reached Saidabad from Bandar Abbas in the third
week of July had met with no opposition, though they had
experienced a most trying and difficult march owing to the
extreme heat.
Bushire; At Bushire, during June and July, the preparations for an
June and au t umn offensive proceeded continuously and methodically.
July 1918. com | 3 atant troops at Bushire consisted of a squadron and
machine gun section 15th Lancers, 35th Mountain Battery (less
one section), 71st Punjabis, 81st Pioneers, 2/113th Infantry,
and headquarters with two sections No. 3 Indian Machine Gun
Company. In India, orders were issued for the mobilisation of
the following troops, to be ready for embarkation in the second
week of September: an Indian cavalry regiment (less two
squadrons), four Indian infantry battalions, two sections 3-inch
trench howitzers, a section of mountain artillery, a machine
gun company and two companies of Sappers and Miners.
Among the administrative units were an unusually large number
of hospitals.
The general plan of operations was :—
(i) The pacification of the coast tract near Bushire and the
establishment at Dalaki of an advanced base, in
cluding the construction to that point of a light
railway and the improvement of such roads as were
necessary; and .
(ii) A deliberate advance to Kazerun and the establishmen
there of a force capable of operating in the direction
of Shiraz, probably in co-operation with the force
under Sir Percy Sykes. ,
On the 25th July, H.M. Government enquired whetn ,
having regard to the favourable change in the military situa 10
in Ears, the Government of India considered that an ac ^ van e( j
from Bushire was necessary on military grounds, as it seem ,
undesirable on political grounds. In reply, the Governme
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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).
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- 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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