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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [110v] (225/566)
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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186
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Sarhad
July 1916
Captain James's party and then the wireless detachment without
difficulty, moved on to Ladis to await the arrival of the 106tli
Pioneers. These, under command of Captain L. E. Lang
reached Ladis on the 3rd July; and two days later Colonel
Claridge with the combined parties and accompanied by Major
W. G. Hutchinson,
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
of the Chagai district, who
had been appointed
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for Sarhad also, moved
to Khwash, which was reached on the 10th July.
In the meantime Jiand Khan with an armed gathering had
appeared near Khwash, which he attacked on the night
8th/9th July. This attack was easily and quickly beaten ofi;
and, on the approach of the British reinforcements, Jiand and
his men retired to the tribal summer quarters in the Sar-i-
Drukan valley. General Dyer, who had only been awaiting the
arrival of the 106th Pioneers before taking the offensive
against Jiand, marched off from Khwash on the 12th July with
a column consisting of two troops 28th Light Cavalry, the
section 25th Mountain Battery, the 12th Pioneers' machine gun
section, three hundred rifles 106th Pioneers, a medical unit
and a transport train of seven hundred camels carrying a
months' rations and forage for men and animals.
The Sar-i-Drukan valley, which was General Dyer's objective,
is enclosed throughout its length of about forty-five miles by
rugged and precipitous hill ranges, which limit the practicable
entrances into the valley to the Dast Kird gorge at its northern
end and the Gusht defile to the south. The difficult nature of
both these entrances rendered them easy to defend, and
General Dyer decided, by feigning an advance on Dast Kird,
to try to draw Jiand in that direction so as to give his own
column a chance by rapid movement to seize the Gusht defile.
If he could forestall Jiand at Gusht, the possible point of
junction of the Yar Muhammadzais and the Gamshadzais, he
might also gain the co-operation of the free-lance chieftain of
that place, who was known as Gushti. Accordingly, on the 12th j
July General Dyer marched to Kamalabad and from there sent
on his cavalry towards Dast Kird with orders to retrace their
steps after dark and rejoin him. This ruse was entirely successlu
and General Dyer learnt the same night that Jiand Khan was
on his way to hold the Dast Kird gorge. ,
Next morning (13th), the British column moved southwar
and reached Gusht, fifty-five miles distant, on the 16th ^ 1 ^ oU ,
further opposition than a few shots fired at its advanced gnar *
* Before retiring, the cavalry lit camp fires and left them burning.
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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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