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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [175r] (358/660)
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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ORDERS FOR THE NIGHT MARCH
315
units of the force not already on the right bank were to move
into the 3rd Division area after dark on the 6th and 7th ; and
the concentration at the rendezvous was to be screened by the
35th Brigade group (a section of field guns, a squadron of
cavalrv and the 35th Brigade) under General Rice, which
after dark on the 7th was to take up a line running south from
the Tigris to about two miles west of the Pools of Siloam.
At the rendezvous the force was to form up in three groups.
The first and leading group, under the command of General
Kemball, was composed of two columns : Column A, consisting
of the 36th Infantry Brigade, half 34th Pioneers, 8th Battery,
R.F.A., a section 12th Sapper Company, with four canvas
boats, and a field ambulance, under the command of General
Christian; and Column B, comprising the 9th and 28th
Infantry Brigades, 9th Brigade, R.F.A., a section 61st Howitzer
Battery, 12th Sapper Company (less two sections) and three
and a half field ambulances, under General Kemball’s own
command.
The second group consisted of the Cavalry Brigade and a
field ambulance under command of General Stephen.
The third group, termed Column C, was under General
Keary, the commander of the 3rd Division. It comprised the
7th and 8th Infantry Brigades, 37th Infantry Brigade (less
one and a half battalions) 4th Brigade, R.F.A., 13th Brigade,
R.F.A. (less two and one-third batteries), 60th and 61st Howit
zer Battery (less one section), 23rd Mountain Battery (less one
section) and four field ambulances.
In each group the first line transport was to accompany
its unit and the field ambulances were to march with the
troops. The ammunition columns and remaining transport
were to form up in rear of the rendezvous under escort of a
battalion of the 37th Brigade and the 20th and 21st Sapper
Companies.*
The leading group under General Kemball, followed by the
other two, the whole forming a column about two miles long,
was to move off from the rendezvous at 9 p.m. marching on
a magnetic bearing of 206°. On reaching a point, about six
miles distant from the rendezvous and some four and a half
miles east-north-east of the Dujaila redoubt, which will be
referred to hereafter as the point of divergence, the whole
column was to halt and then to divide. The first two groups
were to continue for another four and a half miles in a south-
* The 21st Company had with them two " Bipartite ” pontoons loaded
on four G.S. wagons for use in crossing the Hai or the Tigris.
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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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