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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [173v] (351/540)
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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290 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
gun section from the 52nd Brigade were on arrival to form
Divisional Reserve *
In the meantime, the 11th Cavalry Brigade, encountering
no opposition, had reached a point some miles eastward of
Huwaish at 1 p.m. when General Cassels learnt from an air
report that the Light Armoured Motor Brigade was astride
the Mosul road north of Sharqat and had cut the enemy’s
telegraph cable. General Cassels had a good view of the right
bank of the Tigris, where the gorge at Huwaish seemed to
offer him a good position to make for in the first instance.
But he had.first to find a ford. As the result of reconnaissance
on a wide front a ford was found opposite Hadraniya, about
thirteen miles above Sharqat, at 3.30 p.m. The crossing was
a difficult one, involving the passage of three branches of the
river. In the last the ford followed, for about five hundred
yards, a narrow ledge where the swiftly flowing stream was
about four and a half feet deep, with water at least a foot
deeper immediately above it and much deeper just below it.
By 4.30 p.m. the Guides Cavalry, the leading regiment, had
crossed to Hadraniya, where there was a Turkish hospital
under a small guard. From Hadraniya General Cassels with
the Guides proceeded at a gallop to Huwaish, five miles distant,
orders being left for the 23rd Cavalry, the machine gun squadron
and a section “ W ” Battery, R.H.A., to join General Cassels at
Huwaish as soon as possible after they had crossed. Huwaish
was reached soon after 5 p.m. without encountering any of the
enemy, and General Cassels, finding the position there a strong
one, decided to hold it, at any rate for the night. The position
taken up was one facing south, astride the road, on the north
bank of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Muabba. The 23rd Cavalry machine gun
squadron and horse artillery section also reached here by
6.30 p.m.
The ford, which was difficult by day, was too dangerous to
cross after dark, and the rest of the cavalry brigade remained
for the night on the left bank, being joined about 8 p.m. by the
transport column. General Cassels then sent off a wireless
message to General Cobbe, reporting his position and asking
that the officer commanding the Light Armoured Motor
Brigadef might be directed to report to him next morning.
General Cassels, who was without information regarding the
progress made by the main body of General Cobbe’s force, also
* Actually they did not reach Divisional Headquarters.
t This brigade had seen the 11th Cavalry Brigade across the Tigris during
the day, but had been unable to gain communication with it.
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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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