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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [105v] (219/660)
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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180 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
killed or wounded most of those on the right half of the
stockade, including Major Anderson and Lieutenant Mellor,
commanding the Oxford company. This left only a handful
of men on the stockade and for a time the position appeared
most critical. But fortunately the Turks did not or could not
seize their opportunity* Major Anderson succeeded in getting
together enough men to hold on to the stockade ; and the
fight here settled down to a fire combat at close quarters.
About 11 p.m. the 48th Pioneers—about two hundred
strong—who with the Sirmur Sappers had been working at
a second line of defence just outside the fort, reinforced the
stockade, and the remnants of the Volunteer Artillery Battery
were withdrawn to join the fort reserve. The 48th Pioneers
at once became involved in a stiff fight and the greater part
of the first thirty of them to man the stockade were either
killed or wounded, including their commanding officer, Captain
Neumann. But other Pioneers, under Lieutenant Raynor,
took their place and gallantly defeated all the Turkish efforts
to get over or round the stockade ; and their action finally
turned the scale. The Turkish attacks began to weaken and
then finally about midnight the Turkish infantry withdrew.
About 2.30 a.m., however, they returned to the assault
once again, but the Pioneers were not to be dislodged, and
this time the Turks gave up the contest altogether and the
remainder of the night passed quietly. Thus Christmas Day
dawned on a definite Turkish repulse, and, as it turned out,
on their last serious attempt to take Kut by assault.
The attack had been delivered by the 52nd Turkish Division,
just arrived from the Caucasus army, and from subsequent
statements of prisoners it was learnt that they had sufiered
at least 2,000 casualties.
At about 3 a.m. the Norfolks from the town arrived and
took over the defence of the stockade from the 48th Pioneers;
and a few days later took over the defence of the northern
wall from the 103rd, whose numbers were considerably reduced.
In the meantime the northern and north-eastern walls had
also been assaulted. But the 103rd and Oxfords respectively
had held their own, the successful defence by the latter owing
much to the skilful dispositions on their right made by Captain
Gilchrist.
I he British casualties in the fort had amounted to 315
killed and wounded (including seventeen British officers),
* The lurkish account has not yet been published, but it is known that
they suffered very heavy casualties here.
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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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