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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [42v] (89/540)
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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HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
short of Hit at 5 a.m. on the 2nd. All chance of surprise had
passed and Colonel J. F. Turner, R.E., commanding the column,
had no option but to order a withdrawal. Before doing so,
however he sent forward the armoured cars to reconnoitre
and do what damage they could. But they were stopped by
soft ground and effected nothing, though exchanging shots with
an enemy patrol. The withdrawal was effected without difficulty,
though two motor ambulances had to be abandoned.
In " Yilderim,” Lieutenant-Colonel Hussain Hasni Amir Bey
gives a brief account of the loss of Ramadi, derived from the
report of a Turkish staff captain (Tewfik Effendi), one of the
few members of the garrison who managed to escape. The
British force advancing on the 21st September had been
estimated at two cavalry regiments, six batteries and seven
infantry battalions and the Turkish commander reported that
on the 22nd he had defeated, with the assistance of Arabs,
one of these battalions moving along the north bank of the
Euphrates* Till the telegraph line was cut on the 28th the
Turkish commander had not fathomed General Brookings
intentions. But, in the absence of news from Ramadi, orders
were sent that day by Yilderim Headquarters to the Sixth
Army to send a division at once from Tikrit towards Ramadi.
Whether this was done or not is not stated ; but no news was
obtainable of what was happening at Ramadi till towards
the evening of the 30th,f when Tewfik Effendi, who had crossed
to the north bank of the Euphrates, reached Hit after having
been completely stripped by the Arabs.
The 3/37th Regiment was at once oidered from Tikrit
towards Hit and the 157th Regiment, holding posts along the
Euphrates, was directed to concentrate at Hit, whose garrison
received instructions to retire if attacked by superior forces.
The wireless station at Hit was transferred to Khan Baghdadi
and all stores, etc., at Hit were to be evacuated as rapidly as
possible. The Turkish account continues :—
“ The disaster to the Euphrates Group had opened the
river to the enemy. As the Group had been completely
wiped out, he was free to make any move he wished on
the other fronts. The Russians too were reappearing on
the scene with fresh troops. The supply difficulties in the
* This evidently refers to the surprise of a platoon piquet of the 97th Infantry
by about 200 Arabs, who killed or captured the greater part of the platoon.
t Early on the 30th an enemy aeroplane was on the point of alighting at
Ramadi, when its pilot, discovering that we and not the Turks were in
occupation, flew off again. It escaped, says Colonel Tennant (" In the Clouds
above Baghdad ”) owing to the vain efforts to start a “ Spad ” aeroplane.
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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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