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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [19v] (43/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (266 folios). It was created in 1927. 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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14 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
at Aleppo in June, mentioned the constant passage through
Constantinople since mid-June of Turkish troops from Europe
and a large concentration in progress towards Mesopotamia,
and repeated the information that Falkenhayn was to control
an offensive by a Turco-German force in Mesopotamia. Turkish
reconnaissances from Hit and Ramadi towards Karbala were
said to have been carried out; considerable reinforcements
were reported to have reached, and to be on their way to,
Mosul; and agents spoke of great activity on the railway
towards Mosul. In connection with this, a message was
mentioned as having been signed Yilderim, a term which
General Maude had hitherto not heard and the application of
which he did not understand. There were many other reports
contradicting the information summarised above.
The general conclusion come to at the end of July by General
Maude was that, though there was nothing really definite on
the subject and though an offensive in Palestine appeared to
promise the Turks better and more decisive results than one in
Mesopotamia, it seemed fairly clear that an enemy offensive in
Mesopotamia under German control was intended. The only
reinforcements that had really reached Mosul appeared to
belong to the Turkish 46th and 50th Divisions. It would be
wise not to overlook the chance of an enemy advance by the
Euphrates, but General Maude thought an advance against his
right, thereby cutting him off from the Russians and opening
the way for the enemy into Persia, to be more probable. It
seemed certain that some German troops would take part in
the offensive, but it was considered improbable that the
Central Powers would divert any considerable body so far from
the main theatre of operations.
In reply to a query as to future Russian intentions in the
Asiatic theatre of war, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff
telegraphed to General Maude on the 14th and 16th June a
summary of the situation in Russia, where Kerensky’s influence
and Brusiloff’s appointment as Commander-in-Chief seemed to
hold out chances of improvement. Brusiloff was about to take
the offensive in Europe, and had ordered that no ground was to
be yielded on the Caucasus front, where steps were to be taken
to improve the bad conditions. There was, however, little
chance of Pavloff’s force taking the offensive on the Persian
front, where communication and other difficulties might even
preclude the maintenance of a fighting force of any value on
General Maude’s right. To prevent this waste of Pavloff’s
force, Sir William Robertson proposed the following plan
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The volume is the fourth 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 V. The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917-1918 - North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918', and consists of the following ten chapters:
- May, June and July 1917
- August and September 1917: The Capture of Ramadi
- October to December 1917 - Occupation of the Jabal Hamrin, Action of Tikrit and Death of General Maude
- January to March 1918: Dunsterville's Mission and the Action of Khan Baghdadi
- April and May 1918: Operations in Kurdistan and Arrangements to Counter the Turco-German Threat beyond our Northern Flank
- British Plans to Stop the Enemy's Advance into Persia and to Obtain Control of the Caspian
- The Fall of Baku
- British Advance up the Tigris: Actions of Fat-Ha Gorge and on the Little Zab
- The Battle of Sharqat and the Armistice
- Conclusion
The volume also includes fourteen maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Mesopotamia
- Map 34 - Operations near Ramadi: July and September 1917
- Map 35 - Operations in the Jabal Hamrin: October and December 1917
- Map 36 - Actions at Daur and Tikrit: 2nd and 5th November 1917
- Map 37 - Operations on the Euphrates line: March 1918
- Map 38 - Action of Khan Baghdadi: 26th March 1918
- Map 39 - Operations in the Kifri-Kirkuk area: April and May 1918
- Map 40 - The Cavalry affair of the 27th April 1918, and the action of Tuz Khurmatli, 29th April 1918
- Map 41 - Operations of "Dunsterforce", 1918
- Map 42 - Operations at Baku, August-September 1918
- Map 43 - Operations on the Tigris: 18th-30th October 1918
- Map 44 - Action by 7th Cavalry Brigade near Hadraniya: 29th October 1918
- Map 45 - Battle of Sharqat, 29th October 1918
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- 1 volume (266 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a preface (folios 5-6), a chronological summary of the campaign in Mesopotamia (folios 7-8), a list of contents (folios 8-11), a list of maps and illustrations (folios 11-12), appendices (folios 197-232), an index (folios 233-254), and twelve maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 256-267).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 268; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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