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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [228v] (465/660)
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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420 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
For three or four days previously the Turks had been reported
to be active in ferrying troops across at Maqasis, apparently
from the left to the right bank of the river, and there had been
indications of withdrawal of men from their Sannaiyat position
though this was still held in some strength. It was, therefore'
considered possible that a part of the 51st or 52nd Divisions
were being moved to the right bank.
The British casualties on the 17th and night of the 17th/18th
April amounted to about 1,600, of which the greater part
occurred during the night. We also lost 15 machine guns.
The 7th Brigade lost 508 officers and men out of an effective
strength of 2,277, the 8 th Brigade 310 out of 1,954, and the
9th Brigade 531 out of 2,227.* Of individual battalions the
93rd Burma Infantry, 27th Punjabis and 47th Sikhs all incurred
losses of over thirty per cent, of their strength. The main
honours of the fighting during the night lay with the Connaught
Rangers, No. 2 Company Manchesters, 27th Punjabis, 47th
Sikhs, 59th Rifles, and the 14th and 66 th Field and 23rd
Mountain Batteries.
At 5.50 a.m., when it was quite light and the Turks could
be seen in full retreat, General Keary ordered his two divisional
cavalry squadrons to cover the gap between his left and the
Umm al Baram and to take every opportunity of harassing
the Turkish flank with dismounted fire. •
At 6 a.m., when General Gorringe arrived at General Keary’s
headquarters, the general situation along the front was as
follows. The Connaughts, 89th Punjabis, 9th Worcestershire
and 6 th East Lancashire, in this order from the right, held the
former Turkish first line trench from the Tigris to near point
Z ; and the 27th Punjabis and 128th Pioneers were in reserve
near 7th Brigade headquarters at Twin Pimples. The 9th
Brigade were being reorganised immediately to the north-east
of Twin Pimples. The 6 th South Lancashire occupied the
trench XZ for some two hundred yards from X and the line
from there southward to the right of the 8 th Brigade. This
brigade with the 37th Brigade on their left prolonged the line
to the Triangle, whence the 4th South Wales Borderers and
the 5th Wiltshire carried the line eastwards facing south. The
Turks, well provided with machine guns, were holding per
tinaciously to the point Z and to a few hundred yards of the
trench on either side of it; and they were also in close contac
with the whole of the right of the British lin e. Of the remaind er
* The effective strengths of the infantry of the 3rd and 13th Divisions
on 16th April are given in Appendix XXVII.
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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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