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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎134v] (273/566)

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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232
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
audit the finances and on one or two occasions offered advice
regarding organisation. In the meantime, actuated no doubt
by our success in Mesopotamia, the Persian Government had
sent Sir Charles Marling, on the 13th March, an official recogni
tion of Sir Percy Sykes' appointment to organise the South
Persia Rifles. They had also sent a satisfactory telegram
notifying their recognition to Farman Farma ; and the Minister
of War had sent his approval of the various appointments, etc.,
made by Sir P. Sykes.
Bushire ; At Bushire, where the Indian infantry garrison had been
M ^ r e c ^ a ^“ reduced by General Maude early in February to one battalion
arc 1917. Punjabis), there were no incidents of importance in
February and March. On the 24th March General Douglas
was informed by the Chief of the General Staff in India that
our policy remained purely defensive, his role being the active
defence of Bushire town and port, and that he was to keep in
close touch with Sir Percy Sykes, the local political authorities
and the Commodore commanding in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
General For some months past the political situation at Tehran,
situation ; reac ting to the military domination of Russia, had given the
arC 1917 ^ Allies little cause for anxiety. On the 27th March, however,
the British Minister reported that this state of affairs might be
profoundly modified by the revolution in Russia.* The hostile
elements, with whom the Shah was in full sympathy, were, he
said, spreading the belief that the new regime in Russia was
ready to reverse former Russian policy in Persia, to withdraw
Russian troops, to refrain from insisting on the validity of the
agreement made in August 1916 and to encourage the meeting
of the Majlis. The extremists were also urging that demands
in the above sense should be at once addressed to Russia and
were trying to wreck the Cabinet on the ground that Russophile
Vossuk-ud-Daula would not press such demands. As the
Russian charge d'affaires! had no instructions, the position of
the Persian Cabinet was so difficult that it might be forced to
resign, when it would be succeeded by an extremist Ministry
with its accompanying intrigues and anarchy.
* In this connection it must be remembered that anarchists and re Y°^‘
tionaries from the Caucasus had had a great deal to do with the genesis of tne
Persian revolution a few years previously,
t The Minister was on leave in Russia.

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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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