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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [92r] (188/566)
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 POLICY
151
to face in South Persia, but it was considered that we ought to
carry out a more active policy there and that we should take
steps to defeat the enemy schemes by measures of a nature
similar to those which the Germans had adopted. In regard to
India, as the force there would be inadequate to cope with an
Afghan invasion combined with a general rising on the frontier,
it was recommended that two divisions in Egypt should be held
available to reinforce India if necessary.
The War Committee accepted these conclusions in prin
ciple, and on the 2nd March the
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.
telegraphed
a summary of the views expressed in the appreciation and
of the decisions of the War Committee to the Government
of India. Sir Percy Sykes, they were told, was to discuss
the situation with Qawam and report the result. H.M.
Government, desiring to lend all possible support to enable
Qawam to drive the Germans out of Ears and recover Shiraz,
were prepared to supply him with arms, ammunition and
money and also if necessary to send to Bandar Abbas the
small force which the War Office had previously offered;
though it was to be understood that this force was not intended
to operate inland. For such work H.M. Government were
prepared to lend a few British officers, who could recruit locally
under Qawam’s authority such force as it might be possible to
find arms for. As the War Committee considered that the
most effective way to meet German activity was by counter
activity of the same kind, they wished that an irregular force
should also be recruited in Seistan at once. Such a force,
stiffened by the regular cavalry already there and led by active
and enterprising officers, could take the offensive in detach
ments and hunt down the German parties.
Sir Percy Cox, who arrived at Bushire on the 5th March to South Persia
discuss matters with Qawam, was informed by him, however, March I 9 i 6 .
that as he had to collect his tribesmen before they began their
spring migration to the highlands, he could not afford to wait
for Sir P. Sykes. Qawam wished to return to Lingeh in order
to start his advance from there as soon as he could be given
money and arms, but would send a representative to Bandar
Abbas to meet Sir Percy Sykes. He also declined the offer of
British officers to accompany him, as the Germans would, he
said, make use of their presence to discredit him in Persian
eyes as a mere instrument of the British. At the same time he
pointed out that it had only been his lack of guns and his
shortage of rifle ammunition that had obliged him to retire
from Shiraz. As regards the suggested despatch of a British
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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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