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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [119v] (243/566)
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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204
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA.
carrying guns, arms and ammunition for the South Persia
Rifles as well as specie—the better. Major Farran concurred
in this decision as soon as he heard of it, and on the 2 nd Septem
ber Lieutenant Fraser marched into Kerman with his convoy.
Bushire ; The negotiations for the release of the British prisoners from
July-August, Ahram took some time, but, after some hitches, the last of
I916 ' them, Lieutenant-Colonel O’Connor, was brought into Bushire
on the 20th August. Beyond this, no incidents of importance
occurred at Bushire during July and August. The 2/22nd
Punjabis relieved the 11th Rajputs early in July, and in August
the half-battalion 124th Baluchis at Bushire was expanded into
a full battalion as the 2/124th.*
West and The absence of any indication that the Turks intended to
Centra! ac [vance eastward from Hamadan and the improvement in the
September condition of Baratoffs force—which had been rested and its
1916 . ranks refilled—combined, with the better political outlook
caused by the formation at the end of August of a Cabinet
(under Vossuk-ud-Daula) generally well disposed to the Allies,
to exercise a tranquillising effect at Tehran. In the Isfahan
area, however, a disquieting number of Bakhtiaris had joined
the force raised by Turco-German agents and, though on the
2nd September they were decisively defeated to the west of
Isfahan by the Russian garrison of that place, there was the
possibility that the Turks might detach regular troops to assist
this revolutionary movement. On the other hand, Captain
Noel of the Indian Political Department had succeeded, under
Sir Charles Marling’s orders, in raising several hundred loyal
Bakhtiari tribesmen, and these had pursued the defeated rebels
with a success that promised to upset the German plans. In
consequence of this rebel attack Sir Percy Sykes, at the request
of the British consul, accelerated his march and reached
Isfahan on the 11th September. Though his force had been too
strong to be itself molested, it had seen constant evidence, on
its way from Yezd, of the many large robber bands which had
brought about absolute insecurity on the roads.
Far ® In the meantime, Saulat, having met Farman Farma and
September Colonel Gough at Qumisheh with apparently satisfa ctory
1916. * In December 1916 the 2 / 22 nd Punjabis became the 22 nd, replacing the
battalion captured in Kut; and the half-battalion 124 th Baluchis with bir
P. Sykes became first the 1 / 124 th (half of it remaining in India) and then e ar y
in 1917 the 3 / 124 th (only two companies strong without battalion hea
quarters).
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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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