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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [119r] (242/540)
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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BRITISH TROOPS FOR PERSIA 189
interned and should try and get in touch with Russian Turkes
tan, where the situation was believed to be as follows i A.
British officer (Captain Jarvis) from Meshed was on his way to
Askabad where there were Armenians ; the Turkomans, if
favourably approached, were believed to be friendly ; the
Bolsheviks power was waning ; the Bokharans were anti-
Bolshevik and would combine with any power to get rid of
them ; and some of the 38,000 prisoners of war, controlled bv
the Bolsheviks at Askabad and Tashkend, were armed, but they
were short of food.
This undertaking was to be a separate one from that for
Baku, though eventually troops sent to Baku might have to be
transferred to Krasnovodsk ; and any troops sent to either
place were to be at once replaced in North-West Persia by
troops from Mesopotamia. Though, technically, Krasnovodsk
was in the sphere under India it was to be temporarily under
General Marshall’s control.
On the 4th July General Marshall sent a further reply to the
War office telegram of the 28th June, saying that his Director
of Local Resources was already at Kazvin organising the pur
chase of supplies on a large scale. In the meantime the 39th
Infantry Brigade had been ordered to move into Persia by
battalions as transport became available ; and they would be
followed by a field artillery brigade (less a battery already
en route), an engineer field company and a field ambulance.
These troops would move by night and would have to take
tents, as the maximum day temperature averaged about
116° F. and there were no trees. Part of the transport allotted
for the collection and distribution of the Hilla harvest was
being withdrawn and all available lorries, including those
belonging to the artillery, were being utilised to supply Dunster-
force. General Marshall did not think that any metalling put
on the spongy Persian road would stand lorry traffic in the
winter rain and snow ; at that season he would have to rely on
Ford vans, carts and pack transport with their corresponding
limitations.
The survey of a railway line beyond Khaniqin had been
commenced a month previously ,* but there were considerable
difficulties. Work on the Persian road was well in hand,
though labour was scarce. Telegraphic communication with
General Dunsterville had broken down and his opinion was
still awaited in regard to the War Office instructions under
* The extension of the railway from Table Mountain to Khaniqin was in
progress, but it involved heavy work in the Jabal Hamrin.
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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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