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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [252r] (512/660)
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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ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
463
hours. The march itself was a nightmare. The Arab soldiery
freely used sticks and whips to flog the stragglers on, and
although in some cases they kept the promise given to the
British officers that men who fell out from sickness would be
put on camels and donkeys, many died by the roadside.
Many men had neither boots nor waterbottles left, and at
Aziziya the Turks were obliged to leave 350 of them, crowded
together in miserable insanitary buildings, to follow later
by river.
On arrival at Baghdad, General Delamain and Colonel
Hehir, who with the other officers now realised what their
men had to put up with and were full of anxiety as to their
fate, managed to arrange that eleven of the British medical
officers should remain at Baghdad for work among the sick
rank and file. These medical officers, with such help as the
Turkish doctors in Baghdad, badly equipped themselves
with many thousand sick and wounded of their own to look
after, could give, managed to relieve much suffering and saved
many lives* Some French sisters of charity and nuns also
gave magnificent help; and the unceasing efforts of Mr.
Brissell, the American Consul, in this respect also were
invaluable.
Russian forces were at this time not far from Baghdad,
and the Turkish authorities were very anxious to send the
prisoners up country as soon as possible. Some 500 sick
had to be left in Baghdad, but the remainder were sent
off in batches, being packed into railway trucks for the first
seventy miles to Samarra, where they had to begin their desert
march. Of what followed the Parliamentary report speaks
as follows :—
"Their state of preparation for a march of five hundred
miles, the health and strength and equipment which they
possessed for withstanding one of the fiercest summers
of the globe, can be pictured from what has been described
already ; and the efficiency of the Oriental care to which
they were entrusted is as easily imagined. The officers
who were left in Baghdad, and who watched them depart,
could only feel the deepest anxiety and dread.
" The truth of what happened has only very gradually
become known, and in all its details it will never be known,
for those who could tell the worst are long ago dead. But
it is certain that this desert journey rests upon those
* The Parliamentary report points out that the Turkish medical officers
here gave much sympathetic co-operation.
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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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