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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [214v] (437/660)
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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392 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
front line. The Turks made frequent attempts to shell them
out of this, but these were all successfully countered by the
supporting British artillery and machine guns, especiallv
by those of the 8 th Infantry Brigade on the right bank. ^
In this attack the 13th Division sustained 1,807 casualties
to which the 6 th King’s Own, 6 th Loyal North Lancashire
5th Wiltshire and 8 th Royal Welch Fusiliers each contributed
over 26 per cent, of their respective strengths.
Panic, such as apparently seized some of the men, rendering
a great part of the division temporarily impotent bv the
disorganisation it created, is one of the hazards of a night
attack of which history gives several instances among the
very best troops. In this particular case officers of experience
who were present attribute it to the benumbed state of the men
to the shortage of officers* and trained non-commissioned
officers with platoons and sections and to the limited military
training and experience of a large portion of the division,
who had shown that they did not lack courage.
On the right bank, during the day, serious trouble was
caused by the bursting of an embankment and causeway
freshly constructed eastward of Abu Rumman, through
which the Tigris flood passed, spreading as far as the Umm
al Baram and adding to the already extensive inundations.
Besides isolating further portions of the 3rd Division and
several batteries of artillery, these floods prevented further
operations along this bank and added greatly to General
Gorringe’s anxieties by increasing the difficulty of supplying
the advanced troops there.
During the night of the 9th/10th April, the 38th and 39th
Brigades were withdrawn ; and our trenches on the left bank,
manned by the 7th Division, 40th Brigade, 72nd and 88 th Field
Companies, R.E., and 8 th Welch Pioneers, were being pushed
forward 150 yards, when the waters of the Tigris and the
Suwaikiya began to encroach again on both flanks, necessitating
a suspension of the work to prevent complete inundation.
The weather was now becoming very hot in the daytime,
and the glare of the sunlight, with dust outside the inundated
areas, was very trying ; and, in addition, all suffered greatly
from the plague of flies, mosquitoes and sandflies. A Member
of Parliament, who was in Mesopotamia at this period, describes
in “ Mons, Anzac and Kut ” his experience of the flies:—
“ Nothing that I have ever seen or dreamed of came up to
* Forty per cent, had been killed or wounded in the fighting at Hanna
and Fallahiya.
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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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