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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [188r] (380/540)
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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GENERAL SITUATION 3 15
was also on its way from the Little Zab to join him having
been ordered forward from there at 7 a.m. ifter airmen had
of P Alt e U n n 0 K 6 prL ° f ^ TUrkiSh movement from th e direction
At 4.20 p.m. General Cassels learnt from an air report that
the enemy s position was unchanged and that the 17thDivision
guns were still carrying out a bombardment. About 5 p m he
saw two Very lights which had been fired on the west flank of
M a 5 m p T m U t Sh P0S1 * 0n :, b K Ut had no idea what the y indicated
he was stfll with", , ] ° med the Gurkhas > and at dusk
n - 1 any lnform ation in regard to the result
of the 17th Division attack. He decided that during the nLht
gunTshould* 2 bomb th6 ene ^ y fadng him and t^his
the enemvW^^ he rf rea u t0 the south - we st, across which
NortonTo Y f Cape< He directed Genera l
iN orton to do the same, but heard that the latter's guns were
practically without ammunition. At 10 p.m., however he
heard from Corps Headquarters that the 17th Division had not
becW h tiN°X ete SUCCeSS ' .ft* the situation the re would not
be clear tm the morning and that, although the 17th Division
would hold what it had gained, it had no hope of mlk ng
progress during the night. F g
At dusk, there were still no indications of any enemy move
ment down the Little Zab and the headquarters 55th Infantry
MJh • ‘r 6 V r* h EaS * Surre y Re e ime " t > tw<: > sections 24<*h
Machine Gun Company and B/337th Field Battery were on
battalion^ f 6 T Fa *' ha * Conse q u c»tly the remaining
attahon and machine gun sections of the 54 th Infantrv
Br I gade , le , ft . 1 the Llttle Zab at 7 P-m. to join General Sanders. Y
Ihe details, given in the different war diaries and in all
on n S ' + °n thG 17th Division operations after midday
the 29th October are very conflicting and it is consequently
only possible to be certain of the general trend and results
the fightmg The extended front, the broken nature of the
ground the exhaustion of men and animals and the shortage
ol cablej for communication seem to have been the main
reasons for this uncertainty, which persisted till well after dark
r th f 1 5 ead J ng ranks of the Highland Light Infantry
and i/lOth Gurkhas had gamed positions within about four
hundred yards of the enemy’s trenches, but the greater part
tkes e two battalions seem to have been about one thousand
I ^ n f er orders issued by General Cobbe at 8 a.m.
by hand 7 006 Wag ° n had COme Up t0 the front and cable had to ^ laid
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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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