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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME I.' [129r] (262/454)
The record is made up of 1 volume (223 folios). It was created in 1923. 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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OPERATIONS AGAINST ARABS
233
instructions to send a cavalry regiment and a field battery for
garrison duty there; three battalions of the 12th Infantry
Brigade were to accompany them and subsequently to proceed
thence by river to Basra. In accordance with these orders, the
7th Lancers, the 82nd Field Battery, three-quarters of the
West Kents and the 67th and 90th Punjabis left Bisaitin on
the 9th June, reaching Amara on the 14th without opposition.
This was fortunate, as the intense heat and the brackish or
salt marshes made the march sufficiently trying for men and
animals, already enervated by their seven weeks’ campaigning
in Arabistan.*
Meanwhile General Gorringe had obtained information
that the Ayahshah section of the Bani Tamin tribe—who had
been responsible for the treacherous attack on Major Anderson’s
cavalry on the 29th April—were collecting their crops and were
camped in the neighbourhood of Ali Ibn Husain. As soon as
arrangements had been made for the despatch of the force
mentioned above to Amara, General Gorringe moved out of
Ilia on the night 8th-9th June to surprise all the three encamp
ments in which these Arabs had been located. The British
column consisted of the 33rd Cavalry, two guns of the 76th
Field Battery, the Maxim Battery, the 11th Rajputs, 44th
Infantry and 66th Punjabis, with some signal and medical
units. Marching by night, these troops reached a point of
assembly about one and a half miles equidistant from all three
Arab encampments, against each of which a portion of the
force advanced at 4 a.m. The surprise was nearly entirely
successful, but as the troops approached some men and dogs
gave the alarm and most of the Arabs escaped. They had no
time, however, to remove their ammunition, household effects
or grain, which fell into our hands. The 66th Punjabis and
11th Rajputs returned in the evening to Ilia and Ghadir
respectively, while the rest of the force marched to Ahwaz.
The heat during the day had again been intense and four of
our men succumbed to its effects.
This ended the operations in Arabistan, which had been
completely successful. The oil pipe-line had been repaired
by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company under an escort of Bawi
tribesmen and by the 13th June oil was once again reaching
the refinery at Abadan. General Gorringe himself left Ahwaz
for Basra on the 15th and further evacuation of troops was
carried out as quickly as possible.
* Candler in his “ Long Road to Baghdad ” (p. 244) cites the vivid details of
this march given him by an officer who took part in it.
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The volume is the first 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 divided into two parts. The first part, entitled, 'Part I. Before the Outbreak of Hostilities', consists of the following five chapters:
- General Description of the Country
- The Turks in Mesopotamia
- British Pre-War Policy
- The Army in India and Pre-War Military Policy
- Inception of the Operations
The second part, entitled, 'Part II. The Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia', consists of the following seven chapters:
- The Landing in Mesopotamia of Force "D" and the Operations Leading to the Occupation of Basra
- The Occupation of Basra and the Capture of Qurna
- Commencement of the Turkish Counter-Offensive
- Development and Defeat of the Turkish Counter-Offensive
- Operations in Arabistan and the Capture of Amara
- Operations on the Euphrates and the Occupation of Nasiriya
- The battle of Kut and Occupation of Aziziya
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 1 - To illustrate operations described in Chapter VI
- Map 2 - To illustrate fighting near Qurna
- Map 3 - To illustrate fighting round Shaiba
- Map 4 - To illustrate operations in Persian Arabistan
- Map 5 - To illustrate operations in the Akaika Channel 27th June to 5th July 1915
- Map 6 - To illustrate operations near Nasiriya 6th to 24th July 1915
- Map 7 - To illustrate the Battle of Kut 28th September 1915
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- 1 volume (223 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a page of errata (folio 5), a list of contents (folios 6-8), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 9), appendices (folios 185v-192), an index (folios 192v-214v), and eight maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 217-224).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 225; 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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