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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [142r] (288/566)
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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247
SYKES MISSION OPERATIONS
of their activities and those of the South Persia Rifles in this
direction, from the end of May till the end of August, are given
in the following brief summary. .
On the 28th May, Captain A. N. I. Lilly, commanding the
South Persia Rifles detachment at Abadeh, learning that a
band of Qashqai robbers had carried off some sheep and
donkeys, promptly took out forty-five South Persia Rifles
cavalry and surprised the robbers, numbering seventy to
eighty, at a point about ten miles away. The robbers retired
fighting into the hills till darkness enabled them to escape,
though with a loss of at least ten casualties. The South
Persia Rifles appear to have had no casualties and recovered
all the stolen property.
On the 1st June, a squadron of the Burma Mounted Infantry,
under Major V. P. B. Williams, on their way to Dehbid, came
into collision with a band of robbers belonging to a Khamseh
tribe and pursued them for some miles, inflicting casualties
without loss to themselves.
On the 10th June a few South Persia Rifles, escorting a
caravan on the Isfahan road north of Abadeh, beat off an
attack by a band of Qashqai robbers, suffering one casualty.
On the 12th June a donkey caravan, carrying wheat for
Shiraz and escorted by a few South Persia Rifles, was attacked
and captured by Qashqai robbers not far from Abadeh, two of
the South Persia Rifles being killed and two of the robbers
wounded. Captain Lilly at Abadeh, on hearing of the occur
rence, at once went in pursuit with sixty South Persia Rifles
cavalry. He caught up the robbers and after a running fight
forced them to abandon a number of laden donkeys and
inflicted several casualties on them. The South Persia Rifles,
who covered over fifty miles during the day, suffered no
casualties, though one of their horses was wounded and two
died of exhaustion.
On the 18th and 19th June part of the Burma Mounted
Infantry detachment at Dehbid were engaged in that vicinity
with a robber band who had looted a donkey caravan. The
action was most effective, nine of the robbers being killed or
wounded and eighteen captured, while part of the lost property
was recovered. This affair had an excellent effect in the
neighbourhood.
On the 4th July Major Williams moved out from Dehbid, in
a south-westerly direction, with a column composed of the
Burma Mounted Infantry squadron and 150 rifles and a
machine gun section of the 124th Baluchis, to deal with a band
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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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