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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [253v] (515/660)
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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466 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
to the violent extremes of heat and cold and where malaria
was rife. The German and Austrian engineers in charge, .
although they did not always see that the men had sufficient
clothing and food, generally treated the men well in other
ways. Fortunately, the American consuls at Mersina and
Aleppo intervened energetically and frequently, and thanks
to their resource and enterprise the prisoners benefited con
siderably. In the summer of 1917 most of these camps shifted
eastward. In the winter more British soldiers were concentrated
at Angora, but there is little record of their conditions.
At Ras al Ain some hundreds of Indian prisoners passed a
dreadful time, ravaged by sickness, ill-fed and overdriven
until the first charitable help arrived from Aleppo in November
1916. An officer of the Indian Medical Service was there
from the first, but in the lack of medicines and proper food it
was inevitable that the death rate should be very high. Matters
here also had improved much by the summer of 1917. It is
to be noted that those of the Indian prisoners who were Ma-
homedans received different treatment from the others. Few
of them were kept in confinement and almost without exception
they were well treated, while many attempts were made to
tamper with their loyalty. For instance, the Indian Mahome-
dan officers were presented to the Sultan at Constantinople
and were given Turkish swords with permission to wear them,
those who refused being placed under arrest.
In concluding this brief summary of the experiences of our
prisoners it is very necessary to mention how much they and
the Empire owe to the services of the United States Am
bassadors at Constantinople* and, after that country had
entered the war, to the Netherlands Minister.f These gentlemen
were unceasing in their efforts to promote the prisoners’
welfare and it was mainly due to the unending succession of
representations they made to the Turkish Government, backed
by all the weight of their personal influence, that the existence
of the British and Indian prisoners of war in Turkey finally
became tolerable.
* Messrs. Morgenthau and Elkus.
f Monsieur de Willebois.
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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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