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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [129v] (263/566)
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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OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
recommended that, if it was undertaken, the expedition should
be controlled and conducted from India, independently of
Mesopotamia.
On the 27th December General Sir Charles Monro, in reporting
the gist of General Maude’s telegram to the Chief of the Imperial
General Staff, said that he did not intend to authorise the
expedition, from which in any case Sir Percy Sykes could not
obtain any assistance for a period of at least six weeks. The
operations of the Sykes Mission, observed General Monro, were
controlled from Tehran, but it seemed to him that if the position
of the Mission at Shiraz became precarious it could only with
draw to Isfahan.
Control Of The risk that the operations of the troops under Sir Percy
erations in gykes might necessitate the despatch into South Persia of a
Persia^; British relief force led the War Cabinet in London to consider
December the question of the control of such operations. The Chief of the
I 9 l6 ~ Imperial General Staff recommended that they should be
1917 ! regarded as military operations proper and should be controlled
by a military officer, responsible to military authority but
assisted by the advice of the local British political officers. On
the other hand, the War Cabinet had to bear in mind that the
force which Sir Percy Sykes was raising was for the Persian
Government and was primarily a police force which it was
proposed to maintain after the war. It was neither possible
nor desirable, the War Cabinet agreed, to place military
operations in South Persia under General Maude, but it seemed
advisable that the preparations for any such operations and
their control should be in the hands of the Government of
India, who should keep the British Minister at Tehran fully
informed of the measures proposed and taken. It was necessary
that Sir Percy Sykes should maintain his hold on Shiraz, and
reinforcements for him should go via Lingeh or Bandar Abbas,
as it was undesirable that any force operating from Bushire
should commit itself to operations in the mountains lying
between there and Shiraz. Before they issued definite orders,
however, the War Cabinet decided that the
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.
should
telegraph for the views of the Government of India.
This telegram, which issued on the 9th January and was
repeated to Sir C. Marling, stated that as the War Cabinet held
that the operations round Shiraz would probably make it
necessary to replace the Sykes Mission and the South Persia
Rifles under the Government of India, the command being
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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.
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