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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [124r] (256/660)
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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BRITISH ADVANCE
217
The advance on the morning of the 6th, delayed by a dense
mist, started at 9 a.m. and was carried out in the following
order :—Preceded by an advanced guard of one troop 16th
Cavalry and the 37th Dogras and with the bulk of the 16th
Cavalry as right flank guard, General Rice’s column moved
up the left bank, followed at one mile distance by the Reserve
Column under Colonel Dennys * On the right bank, the
advanced guard consisted of one troop, 16th Cavalry, one section
of the 9th Brigade, R.F.A., 56th Rifles, and a company of
the 128th Pioneers. General Kembalhs main body moved
in two parallel columns ; the right one—moving along a track
near the river bank—consisted of column headquarters, the
9th Field Artillery Brigade (less one section), 92nd Punjabis,
one company 128th Pioneers, three field ambulance sections
and all the wheeled first line transport of the column ; the left
column consisted of half the 13th Sapper Company, the Brigade
Machine Gun Company,! 2/Leicestershire, 51st Sikhs (less two
companies) l and 53rd Sikhs. The 6th Cavalry Brigade moved
two miles from the left or outer flank of the two infantry and
artillery columns; and one company 128th Pioneers remained
behind in camp to prepare an aeroplane landing ground.
The mist lifted about 10 a.m., the advance on both banks
having proceeded so far without incident. About half an
hour later General Kemball’s advanced guard reached the
western end of the Musandaq reach, about two miles from where
the enemy’s trenches were reported, and soon afterwards drove
off by fire some 1,000 Arabs to its front. At about 11 a.m.,
as the main body closed up to the advanced guard near the
western end of the Musandaq reach, General Kemball made
arrangements for his further advance. The 56th Rifles and
128th Pioneer company, advancing with their right on the river
bank, were to engage the enemy and to push in their attack
when that of the main body developed. This main body
attack was to advance against what was understood to be the
outer or right flank of the Turkish trench line, and the 53rd
Sikhs, the leading battalion, was directed on this point,H the
* The 92nd Punjabis of the 19th Brigade had been ferried across the river
early to reinforce the Right Bank Column.
t Recently formed with twelve machine guns, two guns having been with
drawn from certain battalions that were equipped with four machine guns
l These two companies formed escort to the second line transport, which
moved well to the rear of the main body. .
|| The battalion was told to move with its right on the line of telegraph
posts, which, according to aeroplane and other reports, led on to the enemy s
extreme right.
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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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