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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [176r] (360/660)
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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317
CONTINUATION OF ORDERS
f neral Kemball’s attack by shelling the Dujaila redoubt and
adjacent trenches with a gradually increasing rate of fire as
the attack developed.
The ammunition columns and second line transport were to
1 V e the rendezvous at 5.30 a.m. on the 8th March and move
to* the point of divergence, being guarded on their northern
flank by the 35th Brigade group, which was to move off from
its screening position at 6 a.m. _ ,
General Aylmer would receive reports up to 5 a.m. on the
8th at the head of Column C and after that hour at a position
ontheleftof the Corps Artillery. ^ 1
The orders also dealt with the action to be taken by the
different formations after the capture of the Dujaila redoubt,
but as these were not brought into operation they do not
directly concern this narrative.
In addition to the operation orders summarised above, a
series of carefully drawn up orders and instructions regarding
the concentration, the night march and various administrative
details were issued between the 2nd and 6th March. The
troops were to carry two days’ cooked rations on the man and,
in addition, one day’s ration (two days for Column A) on the
first line transport.
The Air Force, whose total number of available machines on
the 7th was nine,* received instructions to ward off hostile
aircraft on the 7th to prevent their observing the British
dispositions.
A great part of the force detailed for the night march of
the 7th/8th March was by the 6th already on the Tigris right
bank; but several units and formations had still to cross
from the left bank, and, to prevent observation by the enemy,
they moved after dark on the night of the 6th/7th. Thus many
men got little or no rest that night or the ensuing day. I
General Kemball had been informed at the end of February
that he was to command the force making the outflanking
attack and, though he did not receive a copy of the operation
orders till the 6th March, he ascertained some days before this
the general outline of the plan from the Corps staff. In view
of what he learned, General Kemball obtained an interview
with General Gorringe at which he represented that, con-
* Four aeroplanes R.F.C. ; two aeroplanes R.N.A.S. ; three seaplanes
R.N.A.S., Many of these machines were in an indifferent state, owing to
climate, exposure and hard wear and tear. .
t Particularly the 28th Infantry Brigade, which began crossing the iigns
bridge at 8 p.m. on the 6th and did not all reach their bivouac till after o a.m.
on the 7th.
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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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