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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [193r] (394/660)
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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INADEQUATE MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS 351
Officers and men in Mesopotamia attributed to the parsimony
of the Government of India much of the inadequate arrange
ments and the shortage in equipment from which they were
suffering, and they remarked that the Finance Member of the
Council of the Governor-General in India, in introducing his
financial statement for 1915-16, had observed that the chief
economy in the Budget proposals for the year occurred under
the military services. In point of fact, whatever limits the
Government of India may have placed on their military
expenditure before the war, the Mesopotamia Commission,
who investigated the allegations against the Government of
India and had their own criticisms to record, admitted
that no evidence had been produced before them to
show that any urgent demand put forward by the military
authorities had been definitely refused by the Finance
Department. Moreover, the Government of India did not
bear the cost of any abnormal war expenditure, as India was
precluded by law from doing so without the consent of both the
British Houses of Parliament; and in the autumn of 1914
resolutions of both these Houses had specifically restricted her
war expenditure to the charges which would ordinarily have
fallen on her if the troops employed overseas from India had
remained in that country. Consequently, abnormal war
expenditure on account of the operations in Mesopotamia
was borne by the Imperial Government*
During February 1916 public opinion in the United Kingdom
had been much exercised at the reports of the sufferings of the
wounded in Mesopotamia owing to the inadequate medical
arrangements there. Mr. Chamberlain, who took a great interest
in the matter, had already written on several occasions con
cerning these reports to Lord Hardinge, who in the ordinary
course had referred the question to the Commander-in-Chief
in India. Sir Beauchamp Duff, who had seen nothing in the
reports he himself had received from Mesopotamia to show that
there was anything seriously amiss, and knowing from experience
that in unsuccessful operations carried out under difficult
conditions hardships must occur and that complaints were
often unduly exaggerated, appears at first rather to have
minimised the importance of the reports quoted by Mr.
Chamberlain. But on making further enquiries he came to the
conclusion that the reports might have a real foundation of
* Subsequently both Houses of Parliament allowed the Government of
India, at her own request, to pay a contribution amounting to over
(100,000,000 towards the abnormal expenses of the war.
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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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