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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [125r] (254/566)
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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SETTLEMENT OF SARHAD
215
prisoner. Unfortunately Lieutenant Wahl and one
sowar
In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman.
of
the 28th Light Cavalry were killed in the cavalry charge with
which this successful affair commenced. . , . ^ T . ffMa .
The Makran Mission under Major Keyes remained in the Mission .
vicinity of Sib throughout September. Although, from a September
military point of view, its presence might no longer be necessary, 1916 .
it was considered that Major Keyes was well placed there for
communication with Bahram Khan of Bampur, to receive
overtures of submission from the Damanis and to exercise a
steadying influence on Makran generally. _
General Tanner took over command of the Seistan Force East Persia
on the 5th October and a week later, as the Damanis showed December
signs of willingness to submit, the Government of India issued I9I 6.
instructions that they should be summoned to a
durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
to
discuss terms of settlement. On the 4th November this was
accordingly held at Khwash, and General Tanner, assisted y
Majors Hutchinson and Keyes, arranged a satisfactory settle
ment with Jiand Khan and the Yar Muhammadzais. Ten days
later at Gusht Major Keyes made a similarly satisfactory
agreement with the Gamshadzais. From Gusht the Makran
Mission then marched southward via Sib and Magas and in
December Major Keyes had a satisfactory interview near
Bampur with Bahram Khan. The mission then continued
southward towards Chahbar and reached Qasrqand at the end
of December, having been most successful in establishing
friendly relations with the chiefs and tribesmen of the areas
traversed
After the
durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
at Khwash General Tanner returned to
Saindak, reporting on the 8th November that, pending com
pliance by the Damanis with the terms of settlement, it would
be necessary to retain at Khwash a troop of cavalry, two
platoons of infantry and a machine gun section. It was,
however, found possible to send about one hundred an y
of the 106th Hazara Pioneers back to Quetta and al s° ]^ e
personnel of the 12th Pioneers’ machine gun section. On the
15th November, General Tanner started off with his brigade-
major to carry out a thorough inspection of his commancl,
travelling in two motor cars which had just reached Saindak
from India.f Although he had to traverse some nine hundred
miles of almost entire ly unmade roads in fact at times ere
* The guns were handed over to the 19 th Punjabis. xrot-man inin
| Two other cars, which were to go across the desert and via n PrP mber
Sir P. Sykes, also arrived at the same time. These were followed mDecembe
by two motor cars for the use of the medical staff and by two
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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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