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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [101r] (206/566)
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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DYER'S OPERATIONS
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at Kundi, about one hundred miles to the south-east of
Kacha. This attack was driven off by the escort of 28th Light
Cavalry, with the loss of one man killed and two wounded in
addition to three merchants accompanying the convoy killed.
The raiders left two dead, but succeeded in carrying off some of
our camels.
General Dyer's success had been mainly due to the way in East Persia;
which he had outwitted the Sarhaddi chiefs, and he was Ma y I 9 l6 *
warned that Jiand Khan and Halil Khan had come to suspect
this ; and as, in any case, they could not be relied on to keep
their oaths, their resentment would probably lead them to take
the first opportunity of turning against him and attacking him,
as soon as they discovered how weak in strength the British
really were. On the other hand, Juma Khan, he was told,
could be fully trusted to keep his word. Events seemed to
prove the accuracy of these warnings, for no sooner had the
Sarhaddi chiefs left Kacha than General Dyer received inform
ation that Jiand and Halil intended to collect their fighting
men, retake Khwash and then attack General Dyer. Juma
Khan, it was said, had refused to join them.
General Dyer decided that he must at once march on Khwash,
moving as quickly as possible. His small column, therefore,
started off again on the 4th May and General Dyer decided to
precede it himself in his motor car, trusting to the moral effect
of its novelty and unknown qualities to impress the tribesmen.
Accompanied only by his English chauffeur and a Chagai levy
sowar
In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman.
(a Reki named Idu), who had throughout been acting as
his assistant and intermediary with the tribesmen, General
Dyer reached Khwash early on the 9th May after overcoming
considerable difficulties among the trackless hills. Here and
there on the journey, says General Dyer in his book, he came
across groups of human beings, mostly of a low type, who bolted
in terror at sight of the car. Khwash fort had not been attacked,
though Jiand Khan was reported in the vicinity with an armed
gathering. On the 10th the column arrived, having covered
the distance from Kacha in seven marches ; and next day
Jiand and Halil both came in to visit General Dyer and denied
having had any hostile intentions. They agreed to return to
us the plunder they had taken on our line of communications
and General Dyer began to enlist levies from the Sarhaddi
tribes. In fact on the 14th, reporting to India that he was
making good progress in enlisting levies, he said that Sarhad
was practically settled and that he proposed to hold Khwash.
Work was at once put in hand on a defensible camp there and
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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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