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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [45v] (97/660)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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66 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
entrusted to the officer commanding the 35th Division, while
the whole of the defences on the left bank were placed under
the 51st Divisional Commander, Muhammad Ali Bey.
The troops allotted to the right bank defence were the
seven battalions of the 35th Division, with eight field and
three heavy guns and one of the Arab tribal brigades. Three
battalions occupied the front line trenches while four battalions
remained in reserve. The three heavy guns occupied the
position on the “ island ” and the Arab tribal brigade was
posted on the extreme right flank.
On the left bank, the Turkish first line was divided into
four approximately equal sectors, of which the southern three
were held by the 38th Division, which had the six battalions
of the 112th and 113th Regiments in the front line and the
114th Regiment as divisional reserve posted at the eastern
exit of Ctesiphon village. The northern sector was entrusted
to the 45th Division, which had two battalions of the 142nd
Regiment in the front line, one battalion of that regiment
in local reserve in rear of “ V.P. ” and the six battalions
of the 3rd and 141st Regiments as divisional reserve in
rear of the left flank, just in front of the Turkish second line
of defence. The Turkish account gives the artillery posted
in this part of the line as one heavy and four field batteries, all
of four guns each.* The heavy battery was eastward of the
Arch, there was a field battery in two emplacements behind
“ High Wall,” another behind “ Water Redoubt ” and two
more behind “ V.P.”
The Iraq Cavalry Brigade with one camel regiment were
posted in the open in the rear of the extreme left flank; and
the 51st Division—consisting of seven infantry battalions, a
machine gun company, a company of engineers and fourteen
quick-firing field and mountain guns—formed at Qusaiba the
General Reserve.
The second Arab tribal brigade with one camel regiment
was in occupation of the Diyala river line of defence.
Taking the Turkish figures, the above distribution gave
Nur-ud-Din the following approximate strength in rifles and
guns : on the right bank, 3,800 rifles and 11 guns; on the
left bank, 9,400 rifles and 20 guns ; and in general reserve
4,600 rifles and 14 guns. The seven guns unaccounted for
may have been in the Diyala defensive line.
* In the Turkish account nothing is said regarding the location during the
battle of one of the mountain batteries or of the captured British 18-pounder
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The volume is the second volume of an official government publication compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volume was printed and published at His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
The contents provide a narrative of the operations of 1914-1918 in Mesopotamia, based mainly on official documents.
The volume is in one part, entitled, 'Part III. The First Campaign for Baghdad', and consists of the following fourteen chapters:
- The Decision to Advance to Baghdad
- Commencement of the Advance Towards Baghdad
- The Battle of Ctesiphon - the First Day's Operations
- Battle of Ctesiphon (Continued) and the British Retirement to Kut
- The Decision to Hold Kut and British Policy Consequent on the Failure to Reach Baghdad
- The Siege of Kut: First Phase (December 1915)
- Commencement of the Relief Operations
- The Action of Shaikh Saad
- The Action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. and the First Attack on Hanna
- Operations up to the End of February, 1916
- The Second Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Attack on the Dujaila Redoubt
- The Third Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Successful Advance to and First and Second Attacks on Sannaiyat
- The Last Attempt at Relief; Bait Isa and Sannaiyat
- The Siege of Kut; the Last Stages
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 8 - The Tigris from Kut al Amara to Baghdad
- Map 9 - The Battle of Ctesiphon
- Map 10 - The affair of Umm at Tubul
- Map 11 - The defence of Kut al Amara
- Map 12 - The fort at Kut; with special reference to the Turkish attack on 24th December 1915
- Map 13 - River Tigris between Ali Gharbi and Shumran
- Map 14 - The action at Shaikh Saad
- Map 15 - The action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
- Map 16 - The first attack on Hanna; 21st January 1916
- Map 17 - The attack on the Dujaila Redoubt, 8th March 1916
- Map 18 - To illustrate Tigris Corps Operation Order No. 26, dated 6th March 1916
- Map 19 - To illustrate operations between 10th March and end of April 1916
- Map 20 - The action of Bait Isa on 17th and 18th April 1916, and the attack on Sannaiyat 22nd April 1916
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- 1 volume (323 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of contents (folios 6-10), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 11), appendices (folios 254-290), an index (folios 291-312), and eleven maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 314-324).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 325; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3r, 3r, 4r:70v, 72r:79r, 160v, 80r:102v, 104r:160r, 161r, 313v, 161v:281v, 283r:313v, back-i
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