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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [121v] (247/566)
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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208
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
district. These two detachments left Kerman and Baft on the
6th and 7th September respectively, but the Germans* and their
Persian companions under one Hussain Khan managed to slip
away, their escape being much facilitated by the anti-British
attitude of the populace. It was then decided that the combined
detachments—totalling 27 Indian cavalry, 200 Indian infantry,
a mountain gun manned by South Persia Rifles gunners and some
levies—-should remain temporarily at Saidabad under the
command of Captain Wagstaff to aid in the restoration of order.
This force encamped in a garden outside the town.
Capture of During the night 27th/28th September Hussain Khan with
Saidabad ; a mounted following of twenty to thirty armed men managed
Se tember to enter the town and to i nduce tw0 to three hundred of its
6 ipid! armed inhabitants to join him and occupy its walls and towers.
Next morning Captain Wagstaff proceeded to attack them.
His men surrounded the town, and by the evening his infantry
had worked up close to the walls and his mountain gun opened
fire at a range of 250 yards. Hussain Khan and his mounted
following, however, making a sudden dash for freedom, managed
to effect their escape in the dusk. Further opposition then
ceased and in the morning Captain Wagstaff occupied the town,
where his force remained throughout October, During the
fighting, in which his levies had kept well in the background,
Captain Wagstaff’s casualties had totalled ten—eight Indians
and two Persians—while those in the town were estimated
to be slightly larger.
Kerman ; During October, Democrat intrigues in Kerman town and
0c ^°k® r the anti-British attitude of the tribesmen in the Kerman
191 ' province both militated against a satisfactory improvement in
the general situation. Consequently recruitment for the South
Persia Rifles made little progress.
Reserve of During September, Sir Charles Marling and Sir Percy Sykes
Ind tM tro T ^ ad both on several occasions suggested that more troops might
3 October- be sent from India to aid in the restoration of order in Persia.
November The Government of India, with practically no troops to spare
19164 and averse from further commitments in Persia, did not agree;
but as a precautionary measure they took steps to form a small
reserve at Muscat for use in Persia if the need should arise.
For this purpose they sent a half-battalion 83rd Infantry from
India to relieve the 94th Infantry detachments in the Persian
* There were also many Austrians in the party.
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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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