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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [253r] (514/660)
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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PRISONERS’ CAMPS
465
On arrival at Ras al Ain, the railhead of the railway from
Aleppo and about 370 miles by road from Samarra, many of
the Indians were left there for railway construction work.
The remainder and all the British were taken to the neighbour
hood of Tarsus and Adana in Asia Minor and handed over for
railway construction work to a German company. But their
health broke down at once under the work, and by September
1916 they were handed back to Turkish custody, as it was
hopeless to try and get work out of them. The Turks then
decided to send them to camps in the interior, and their journey
was in many ways a repetition of their former experiences.
At first packed in railway wagons without food and then
driven across the Taurus mountains, where there was a break
in the line, by gendarmes with the butts of their rifles, many
of them died. An Austrian officer who saw part of this journey
likened it to a scene from Dante’s Inferno.
Many of the sick and exhausted stragglers were, however,
owing to the exertions of the American Consul at Mersina,
brought to Adana and Tarsus, where, thanks to the care of
American ladies and doctors, the lives of nearly half of those
rescued were saved.
Once dispersed in various camps their condition as a general
rule improved slightly.*
At Afiun Qarahisar, one of the camps, the men at first met
with most brutal treatment from its Turkish commandant ,
but his flogging and treatment of prisoners became so notorious
that the Turkish Government, under pressure, removed him early
in 1917 and thenceforward conditions there gradually improved
until they became good. Angora was another camp where at
first the prisoners were very badly treated, but in the summer
of 1917 they met with more consideration, although later on
they suffered greatly from want of adequate clothing in the
severe cold of winter. The report says that the men appear
to have considerably impressed the Turks by their power o
bearing up and adapting themselves to hard circumstances.
There were numerous working camps in and near the laurus
and Amanus mountains, where the m ain hardships were due
(11985)
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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)
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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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