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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME I.' [166v] (337/454)
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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306 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
hold Kut with two brigades, leaving one brigade at Amara.
Unless Kut were occupied, the reduction of the Nasiriya
garrison would be impossible.
As regards Ahwaz, General Nixon considered that suitable
arrangements with the local tribes would obviate the necessity
for retaining troops in Arabistan ; although, if hostility on the
part of the Persian Government were expected and if it were
necessary to hold the oil-fields against every possible combina
tion of tribes, he would require very strong reinforcements.
On the 31st July, Lord Hardinge had sent a private telegram to
Mr. Chamberlain, in which he said that the importance of Kut
seemed to grow daily on account of its command of the Shatt
al Hai, where the Turks were now re-forming—about twenty
miles from Kut—the force that had been beaten at Nasiriya.
Lord Hardinge considered that Nixon’s main need was British
drafts* to replace casualties which were occurring at an
appalling rate, largely on account of the evil climate. He gave
the fighting strengths of the l/4th Hampshire as 115, the West
Kents 289 and the Norfolks 389, while those of other units
were, he said, little better. General Nixon was asking urgently
for another Territorial battalion which India could not at that
time see her way to provide, but, Lord Hardinge said, they had
no choice but to send one thousand drafts from Territorial
units, although they were very loth to do so.
On the 5th August the Viceroy sent the following telegram to
the
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.
:—
“ Your telegram of 30th ultimo. These questions have
been under close and constant consideration for months
past, and Nixon’s views, originally called for on June 19th,
and furnished in his despatch of June 24th, have again
been asked for on your above-mentioned telegram. His
reply puts the case so clearly that we repeat it as our
answer to your telegram. (Here followed General Nixon’s
telegram of 2nd August, summarised above.) We concur
in Nixon’s views, and propose to authorise him to advance
on Kut when he is ready. So far as we are aware, Nixon
knows nothing about the proposal to reinforce him tem
porarily with the 28th Brigade, and has always believed
his present force capable of effecting the occupation of Kut
so long as he received drafts to fill up his British battalions
and he was not required to disseminate troops along the
pipe-line. We concur in his views.”
* The War Office had been unable up to that time to send any drafts to
India or Mesopotamia to replace the casualties in British units.
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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)
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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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