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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [39r] (82/540)
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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ATTACK ON RAMADI
53
were concentrated near Force Headquarters* at McCudden’s
Point, while the 6 th Cavalry Brigade, taking over the line of the
bank north of this point, demonstrated north-westward.
JjKmeral Brookings intention was that, after daybreak on the
^oth September, the 42nd Brigade, covered by artillery fire
and supported by the fire of the 12th Brigade, should seize
Mushaid Ridge. Of the artillery, the 215th Brigade was to
act under General Lucas s orders while the remainder was
to be controlled from headquarters.
Soon after 5.30 a.m., when all was ready and patrols had
reported the ridge to be unoccupied, the artillery opened
nre with aeroplane observation ; and two companies 2 / 6 th
Gurkhas advanced. Although they came under a heavy
urkish shell fire, these companies suffered only a few casualties
and by 7 a.m. had occupied Mushaid Ridge and Point, both of
which places the enemy continued to shell heavily, as well as
the ground east of Horse Shoe Lake, where he evidently
believed our main attacking force to be.f
At 6.50 a.m. General Brooking ordered the 6 th Cavalry
Brigade to move south-west, under cover of the Mushaid
Ridge, cross the dam and then move to the west of the Aziziya
Canal so as to cut the enemy’s line of retreat west of Ramadi
and attack his rear. Ten minutes later General Lucas was
directed to seize Middle and Double Hills and General Dunsford
with the 12th Brigade (joined again by the 43 rd Erinpuras
and 90th Punjabis) to cross the dam and support General
Lucas. The 6 th Jats were to remain near McCudden’s Point
to guard the right flank.
Moving off at 7.30 a.m., accompanied by the four cars 13th
Light Armoured Motor Battery, the Cavalry Brigade crossed the
dam about an hour later,coming under some hostile artillery fire;
and, continuing in a south-westerly direction,reached the Aziziya
Canal, whence a small hostile detachment was quickly driven
back on Ramadi. The Aziziya Canal was dry except for some
pools, but it was about twenty feet deep with steep sides and
the bottom was very soft, horses sinking in it up to their hocks.
Ramps had to be made and a bridge constructed, but this was
completed by 12.30 p.m. The brigade then continued its
advance, first moving due west and then north-west; and,
encountering a little opposition from two Turkish cavalry
squadrons, had taken up a position astride the road to Hit about
three miles west of Ramadi and had cut the telegraph line to
* One hundred rifles, 14th Sikhs formed escort to Force Headquarters,
t After the Turks withdrew from Mushaid Ridge they were unable to see
British movements east of that ridge.
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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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