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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [56r] (118/660)
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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TURKISH COUNTER-ATTACK CHECKED 87
message asking him to send back any men of Column A who
were with him, and requesting him to advance and support
General Delamain in the coming attack. General Delamain
then collected his signallers, orderlies, etc., and a few odd
parties, amounting to some sixty men in all, and placing his
Brigade-Major (Major Holdich) and Staff Captain (Captain
Stewart) in command of squads of these, started his advance.
At the same time he ordered his guns to follow his advance and
take up a position some eight hundred yards in front of
“ V.P.” to support his attack. .
I icking up a few small groups of men on their way, whose
numbers, however, were surprisingly small and hardly made
good the heavy casualties the party had already incurred,
General Delamain finally came into line with the left of General
Hamilton’s firing-line, i.e., the 7th Rajputs. Colonel Parr,
commanding the 7th, agreed to combine with General Delamain
in an attack on Turkish trenches some three hundred to four
hundred yards to the front, and his men, who had suffered
heavily, responded gallantly to the call to them. But after
making some progress, a strong Turkish attack in several lines
could be seen moving forward on General Delamain’s left front
making for his guns and “ V.P.” Further advance was im
possible, and General Delamain ordered Colonel Parr to retire
with his battalion and the remnants of General Delamain’s
party and reoccupy his former position. General Delamain
himself, with his orderly officer (his Brigade-Major had* been
wounded and his Staff Captain killed during the advance),
moved over to his guns, which managed by their fire to stop
the Turkish attack when it reached within about one thousand
yards of their position.
General Hoghton, who had been reorganising the scattered
remnants of his brigade, had just begun with them a movement
directed to sweep down the Turkish works to the southward
to round up the remaining enemy garrisons, when he received
General Delamain’s request for support. He was only able to
collect about 250 men made up of detachments of six different
battalions, of whom about sixty were British ; and with this
small body he at once moved out to the support of General
Delamain. The British infantry led the advance with great
gallantry and this small body got within about three
hundred yards of the enemy, who had taken up a strong
position on some sand hills about twelve hundred yards
from “V.P.” Here General Hoghton held on till it was
dark, when enemy reinforcements forced him to withdraw.
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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
- Extent and format
- 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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