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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [98v] (201/566)
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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162
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
East Persia;
April 1916.
simultaneously against Khaniqin. This movement, which, as will
be seen subsequently, had the effect of diverting Turkish troops
from the Tigris in order to defend Baghdad, was unfortunately
too late to have any effect on the Kut relief operations.
German accounts say that Field-Marshal von der Goltz
died at Baghdad on the 19th April and was succeeded in
command of the Sixth Army by Halil
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who then also
regarded the Tigris front as the decisive point. Colonel von
Gleich, Chief of the General Staff to Goltz, who had arrived
at Baghdad a few days previously, received a telegram from
Bopp on the 20th, asking that the Persian group should be
removed from Turkish control and should be allowed to act
independently under direct orders from German General
Headquarters. This proposal was opposed by Gleich, with
the result that the German Persian mission was definitely
placed under the orders of Halil, whose Chief of the General
Staff Gleich now became. At the same time, Gleich, who
considered an offensive in Persia impossible till the British
on the Tigris had been driven back and was also of opinion
that the military uselessness of the Persians had rendered
the Persian project a failure, recommended to Falkenhayn
that, as nothing further could be done in Persia without the
assistance of Turkish troops, the German character of the
Persian undertaking should be abandoned. This, however,
was not agreed to.
To cover their retirement, Seiler and Zugmayer seem to have
spread stories of an intended German advance. For, during
the first week in April, news reached General Dyer from
several sources that a German party, numbering about 1,000,
bad left Kerman for Bam. By the 8th, when he had con
centrated his small column for the expedition against Khwash,
he was still unaware that the Germans had fled from Kerman,
He hoped to win over the Sarhaddi chiefs and thus check
raiding, as well as counter German activities. But he realised
that his column , composed of only one troop 28th Light Cavalry
(about twenty-five sabres), a section 25th Mountain Battery,
a machine gun section 12th Pioneers and seventy-five rifms
19th Punjabis, with the few Reki levies who had promised 0
co-operate, was too small to defeat the tribesmen in open ng >
especially as most of his infantry were partly trained recrm s,
He consequently spread stories that he was advancing wit a
force of 5,000 men and intended first to march against hai
Khan at Jalq.
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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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