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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME I.' [189v] (383/454)
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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352 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
Divisional Troops :—
10th Brigade R.F.A. (less one gun 63rd Battery).
No. 6 Ammunition Column.
Maxim Gun Battery.
12 th Company Sappers and Miners.
11th Rajputs.
66 th Punjabis.
1 Company 48th Pioneers.
2 Sections No. 31 Signal Company.
2 Sections No. 34 Signal Company.
Wireless Signal Troop Company.
No. 3 Combined Field Ambulance.
No. 106 Combined Field Ambulance.
2 Sections No. 19 Combined Clearing Hospital.
Divisional Supply Column.
Approximate Total—12,500 of all ranks, including followers.
APPENDIX VI.
Summary of a pamphlet “ The Turco-British Campaign in
Mesopotamia and our mistakes,” by Staff Bimbashi Muhammad
Amin; published by the Turkish General Staff.
(Translated for the Historical Section, Committee of Imperial
Defence, by Brigadier-General U. W. Evans, C.B., C.M.G.)
Turkish Army Headquarters had allotted the 12th and 13th Army Corps
of the 4th Army Inspectorate (i.e., the regular garrison of Mesopotamia) to
the 3rd Erzerum and 4th Syrian Armies. They relied on local gendarmerie
and locally raised volunteers and levies to maintain internal order in Mesopo
tamia, and to guard against foreign aggression. They also relied on raising
the country and adjacent—and even distant—Musulman regions against an
infidel invader. They did not realise that the tribes and people in Mesopota-
nua were too diverse in habits, race and religion, as well as disinclined through
ignorance and maladministration, to give the necessary assistance. It was
a long time before Turkish Army Headquarters gave up their hopes of exten
sive support from local levies and realised that the tribesmen of Lower
Mesopotamia merely looked upon the war as a means of personal profit and
were always ready to back the winning side.
When war broke out, the bulk of the 12th and 13th Army Corps had been
withdrawn from Mesopotamia. The 12th Army Corps (comprising 35 th and
36th Divisions) was sent to Syria and the 37th Division of the 13th Army Corps
was despatched to Erzerum. Even the 38th Division was about to proceed
to Erzerum when, as the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
says, the Turkish military headquarters at
Constantinople suddenly reahsed that Mesopotamia might be invaded,
and at the urgent instance of the 4th Army Inspectorate the order was
countermanded.
Until the British invasion had almost begun, the Turkish Government
thought such action to be a most unlikely contingency. How could England,
with its little army, add aggressive action against the Turks to her contest
with the German millions ?
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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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