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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [125r] (258/660)
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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DIFFICULTIES OF OPERATIONS
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the whole of the 37th Dogras, supported by the fire of the
1/lst Sussex Battery and of the Heavy Artillery Brigade, had
been absorbed into the firing line and were digging themselves
in about eight hundred yards from the Turkish trenches ; the
97th Infantry had moved up to their support and the 102nd
Grenadiers had prolonged the 37th line to the right. The
remaining battalion of the 35th Brigade (l/5th Buffs) was still
in reserve, and about a quarter of a mile behind them were
the three battalions of the 19th Brigade, i.e., the Reserve
Column infantry.
By this time the front line of the 28th Brigade, supported
by the fire of the 9th Brigade, R.F.A., had gradually approached
the Turkish trenches on the right bank. The 56th, 128th
company and 53rd were about three hundred yards distant
from them; and on their left the Leicestershire, under enfilade
fire and partly mixed up with the 51st who had moved up
to their support, were some five hundred yards from the enemy
trenches. General Kemball had still in hand as reserve the
92nd Punjabis and half the 13th Sapper Company. The
Cavalry Brigade were still about four miles southward of
Shaikh Saad and one and a half miles to the left of the 28th
Brigade.
On both banks the infantry had suffered considerable
casualties. In considering this action, the difficulties of
fighting in this area must be borne in mind. The absolute
flatness of the country with its featureless and colourless
monotony rendered cavalry and infantry reconnaissance and
maintenance of direction difficult in the extreme ; well con
cealed trenches, such as the Turks were adepts at constructing,
were imperceptible except at the closest ranges ; and the con
stant mirage not only added to the difficulty of observation,
but also, by the tricks it played, was often actually misleading.
At 3.45 p.m. General Kemball ordered up the 92nd Punjabis
to advance on the left of the Leicestershire, but the movement
had scarcely begun when orders were received from General
Younghusband to cease the advance and to take up battle
outposts for the night. General Younghusband had come to
the conclusion that the Turks intended to make a determined
resistance and that darkness would intervene before General
KembalTs column could press its attack home and reap the
benefit of success.* On the left bank the 35th Brigade had
drawn considerable fire and was engaged against a strong force
Sunset was about 5.10 p.m.
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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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