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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [71r] (146/566)
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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ATTACK ON BUSHIRE
109
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night and was repulsed without loss to the British, while
among the enemy casualties was Rais Ali, the hostile Khan
of Dilbar, who was killed.
The next attack came on the morning of the 9th, an in-^^e Qf
tensely hot day. General Brooking, who was starting out to 9t ^ s septem-
see a gun practice, learnt from a patrol, which he met near her 1915.
Imamzadeh at 6.30 a.m., that about twenty of the enemy were
in a four or five hundred yard-wide belt of broken ground
which extended southward from Zangina and lay immediately
east of the cliffs. As, in addition to its broken nature, this
piece of ground contained several water-holes and many palm
trees, General Brooking had always realised that it afforded
the enemy an excellent position of assembly for an attack.
(See Map 1.)
On reaching the outpost support at No. 10 Post at 6.45 a.m.
the volume of fire indicated that a considerable number of
the enemy must have collected, and General Brooking at
once issued the following orders :
The company 11th Rajputs in support at No. 10 Post
was to move to No. 6 Post and thence work southwards
through the palm trees on the edge of the mashileh and
attack the enemy’s right;
the company 96th Infantry in support at the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
was to move to No. 3 Post;
the outpost reserve at Imamzadeh (one company 11th
Rajputs, one company 96th Infantry, four machine guns
and the four ex-Turkish guns) under Major C. H. Ward,
11th Rajputs, was to move to No. 10 Post;
a machine gun detachment from H.M.S. Pyramus,
which was doing a route-march, was also ordered to No.
10 Post;
the general reserve at Rishahr (two companies 11th
Rajputs and two companies 96th Infantry) under
Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. Lane, 96th Infantry, was to
prepare to move out;
a company from the Bushire town garrison was to be
sent to join the general reserve ; and
the 16th Cavalry squadron was to move north of
Zangina out on to the mashileh.
The outpost reserve reached No. 10 Post at 7.40 a.m.
General Brooking then ordered the guns to come into action,
the field guns at a point half a mile to the south and the
mountain guns at No. 4 Post; the 96th Infantry company
was to advance southward directly against the enemy; the
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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).
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- 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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