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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [40r] (84/540)
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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■ ■ . 11 —
ATTACK ON RAMADI 55
Knoll and the 12th Infantry Brigade was west of the dam under
cover of Escape Hill.
At 11.10 a.m. General Brooking sent orders directing the
42nd Brigade, supported by the 12th Brigade, to capture
Ramadi and Aziziya Ridges, but twenty minutes later
modified these orders by directing the 42nd Brigade to seize
Ramadi Ridge and the 12th Brigade to seize Aziziya Ridge.
At the same time he moved his own headquarters to Lake
Knoll, taking with him the 6 th Jats, less a road piquet left at
McCudden’s Point.
For the attack on Ramadi Ridge, General Lucas directed
the l/5th and 2/5th Gurkhas to advance in conjunction with
one another at 1 p.m., the Dorsets to move in support and the
2/6th Gurkhas to be held in reserve. The l/5th Gurkhas began
their advance from Middle Hill at 1.10p.m., but, owing to
delay in transit of the order to the 2/5th Gurkhas, that battalion
did not move forward from Double Hill till about 2 p.m.
Under cover of heavy fire from our guns, the l/5th Gurkhas
experienced no difficulty in seizing Ramadi Ridge. But, on
nearing the crest* at about 1.35 p.m., they came under very
heavy fire from artillery, machine guns and rifles from the
enemy’s main positions about 1,000 yards distant and at
closer range from machine guns in a number of emplacements
along the broken banks of the Euphrates Valley Canal. In a
very short time this fire caused the Gurkhas over 100 casualties ;
but they were not to be dislodged and dug themselves in as
rapidly as they could under the heavy fire. Two of the Dorsets’
companies came up on the left about 2.15 p.m., also receiving
severe punishment as they topped the ridge ; a little later the
2/5th Gurkhas came up on the left of the Dorset companies ;
at 3.30 p.m. another Dorset company came up on the left of
the 2/5th ; and about 4 p.m. the 2/6th Gurkhas also came up
and occupied a line on the right between the l/ 5 th Gurkhas
and the Euphrates Valley Canal. This occupation of the
Ramadi Ridge, which pinned the enemy to his position, was
particularly well-timed, for it was subsequently ascertained
that it caused the recall from Aziziya' Bridge of about 1,000
Turkish rifles who had been despatched to deal with the
advance of the 6 th Cavalry Brigade and to lead the way to a
Turkish withdrawal.
* In The Long Road to Baghdad,” Candler describes the ridge. " This
low pebbly rise is perfectly smooth, a long and gentle gradient, a bare seventeen
feet above plain level. It offered no cover of any kind and our infantry
became visible to the Turks a full two hundred yards before they reached the
top of the rise.”
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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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