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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [109v] (223/566)
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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184
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
tad ; Deh Bala was reached about 2 p.m. ; and the British column
9l6, went into camp about three-quarters of a mile from the village,
while General Dyer went on there to hold his enquiry, taking
with him a troop of cavalry, about twenty infantry and ten
levies. Jiand and a number of his men attended the enquiry
and, in a heated controversy aroused by the obviously false
evidence, assumed such a threatening attitude towards General
Dyer that he felt compelled to order their immediate arrest,
This was quickly effected by the escort, who seized and disarmed
Jiand and thirty-seven of his men and marched them off as
prisoners to the British camp.
Next day the column marched back to Khwash with the
prisoners, whom General Dyer was warned that the Damanis
would certainly attempt to rescue. He therefore decided to
send them into Quetta, and, as he had not sufficient troops to
escort them, asked that troops should be sent from Quetta to
take over charge of them at Kacha. General Grover at Quetta
immediately ordered three hundred rifles, of the half-battalion
106th Hazara Pioneers working on the road, to proceed at once
from Dalbandin to Saindak. From there, 150 of them were to
escort the prisoners to Quetta, while 150 remained at Saindak
in order to reinforce General Dyer in case the removal of the
prisoners caused disturbances in Sarhad.
On the 25th June, General Dyer sent the prisoners off from :
Khwash, with an escort of two troops 28th Light Cavalry, fifty
rifles 19th Punjabis and a machine gun, under command of Cap
tain F. James, 28th Light Cavalry, to move via Kalchat and the
western spurs of the Kuh-i-Taftan to Kacha, so as to avoid the
Sangun area where it was reported that Halil Khan meant to
attempt a rescue. That night, however, at Kalchat, all the
prisoners, with the exception of Jiand, his son and two others,
managed to excape.* On news of this reaching General Dyer a
Khwash at 4 a.m. on the 26th, he at once realised that a strong ^
attempt to rescue Jiand and his son would certainly be made an |
also that a wireless detachment (two pack sets), which was on is
way from Kacha via Sangun to join him at Khwash, worn e
in danger of attack. He immediately sent orders to Capa
James to march to Chah-i-Zar, for which place he himse e
at 8 a.m. with one troop 28th Light Cavalry and a mac ^ e
He also sent orders to Colonel Dale at Kacha to send hal o
* All of them, except Jiand and his son, had been put inside a
enclosure for the night. In the dark, however, managing to slip ,
they stripped off their clothing and, laying it across the barbed wi
naked.
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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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