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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [62r] (128/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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 MOVE INTO SEISTAN
93
(27782) H 2
In consequence of the above, orders were at once sent to
Major Dale that he was to leave Kacha on the 30th July with
300 rifles and two machine guns and march by the shortest
route to Nasratabad (Seistan), where he was to take steps, in
co-operation with the local Persian officials, to prevent the
establishment of German agencies in Seistan. Two squadrons
28th Light Cavalry with two machine guns, the party of Hazara
Pioneers, a few Sappers and Miners and two machine guns of
the 12th Pioneers, all of whom had left Nushki in three parties
on the 12th, 16th and 25th July and were due at Kacha on the
2nd, 6th and 15th August, would follow him as soon as possible.
In informing H.M. Government of this action, the Viceroy said
that if the German parties meant to enter Afghanistan via
Birjand, avoiding Seistan, neither the British nor the Russians
could stop them, so that the matter must be left to the Amir
of Afghanistan, who was being acquainted with the German
movements.
On the 30th July the Governor of Birjand informed Major
Prideaux that in accordance with orders from Tehran—which
Mr. Marling had induced one of the permanent officials to
issue—he was sending a force to apprehend the Germans at
Kain and disarm their followers. The necessity, however, did
not arise, as these Germans and their followers, after a short
and indecisive fight with the leading detachment of Cossacks
on the morning of the 30th, fled hurriedly during the night
abandoning their baggage, which was said to contain gifts
for presentation, in addition to arms, ammunition and bombs.
On the 1st August, forty Cossacks, who had moved southward
through Tun and to the westward of Kain, but had seen no
signs of the Germans retiring from there, arrived at Birjand
having learnt that a small enemy party had reached Tabas
from the west and was being followed closely by other parties
whose numbers totalled one hundred and fifty. On the 1st
August the 1st Semirechia Cossacks, about seven hundred
strong, reached Meshed and left there four days later for
Turbat-i-Haidari.
On the 4th August Major Dale's detachment reached Nasra- East Persia;
tabad, where he was joined on the 14th by Lieut.-Colonel J. M. Au s ust I 9 I 5*
Wikeley with one squadron 28th Light Cavalry, two machine
guns and a few Hazaras and Sappers and Miners. About half
their riding camels, however, required either ten days' rest
or replacement as a result of their 500-mile desert march.
Since the 1st August the information of the German movements
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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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