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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [162v] (333/660)
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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290 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
In Persia, while the presence of Russian forces had exercised
a steadying effect in the north and north-west, the end of
1915 saw German agents endeavouring to raise the tribes in the
centre and south. German consuls or German agents with armed
bands had visited the main centres, creating anti-British dis-
turbances, plundering branches of the Imperial Bank of Persia
and assassinating prominent Persians of pro-British tendencies
In Shiraz the British Consul (Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. T
O’Connor) had been made prisoner, together with the whole
British colony, and had been deported to Ahram, some miles
from the coast. This critical situation was discussed fully with
the Persian Government and it was arranged early in 1916tosend
a British mission under Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes to
maintain law and order in South Persia. Sir Percy Sykes was to
raise a Persian force to replace the gendarmerie, who with their
Swedish officers had by then practically all joined the Germans
or had dispersed owing to lack of pay ; and the Russians were
to raise a similar force in the north.
On the Tigris the weather continued stormy with much
rain from the 23rd to the end of January and there were no
operations of importance. The Tigris rose to one of those high
year, inundating considerable areas of ground on the right
bank. On the left bank, General Aylmer’s infantry entrenched
regular system of relief for trench duties was inaugurated.
The force on the right bank also entrenched themselves, in a
Reconnaissances of the country to northward, southward and
westward were carried out, particular attention being paid to
the possibility of finding a way through the marshes which
covered the Turkish left flank.
From the 26th to the 28th January, General Townshend
sent several telegrams referring to a Turkish division, estimated
6,000 strong, which had been seen from Kut moving from the
Turkish camp at Shumran towards and across the Hai, over
a bridge which could be seen under construction some five
miles south of Kut. The first of these telegrams was in clear
instead of in the usual cipher ; the weather prevented any air
reconnaissance on the 26th ; and General Aylmer decided
that day to ferry across the Tigris a great part of his force to
meet what looked like a possible Turkish counter-offenshe
down the right bank. Cavalry and air reconnaissances, as
floods to which it is subject during the first five months of the
themselves strongly at distances varying from nine hundred
to fifteen hundred yards from the hostile trenches; and a
position to enfilade the Turkish works on the left bank.
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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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