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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [175r] (354/566)
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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305
PUNITIVE OPERATIONS IN EARS
and led by scouts who charged mounted with bayonets fixed,
drove the tribesmen into the high hills to the west and pursued
them for some distance. j
In the meantime, Captain Thacker had been engaged with
the Chehar Rahis, who had started about 10 a.m.—when they
saw the dust of the British column—to remove their animals
and possessions. At first it looked as if they might succeed
in getting these away, but Colonel Grant, realising this, ordered
Captain Thacker to detach half his small force to get round the
enemy's right flank and at the same time sent mounted mes
sengers to Major Dyer requesting him to reinforce Captain
Thacker. The two parties were operating about three miles
apart, and, separated from one another by difficult mountainous
country, had lost touch ; so that it was not till 2.15 p.m. that
Major Dyer arrived with two troops and two Lewis guns. In
the meantime Captain Thacker had detached another half
troop to a commanding position towards the enemy's left
flank and thus prevented him driving off his animals in that
direction also. Menaced thus from both flanks, the Chehar
Rahis were forced to abandon the bulk of the animals and
plunder they had recently taken from caravans on the Yezd
road. Retiring in small groups on a front of two miles in a
general south-westerly direction towards the Chehar Rah plain,
they made a stand on a pass about nine miles south-westward
of Chenar-i-Naz. But Major Dyer's two troops drove them
from here in a final attack, which, coming after sixteen hours'
fighting and marching, was a fine effort.
It was estimated that the tribesmen, whose numbers had
amounted to about 350,* had sustained over 60 casualties,
while the Burma Mounted Infantry, who recovered a large
number of animals and much plundered property, had only two
men wounded. They had been nineteen hours on the move
and had covered about fifty miles. They bivouacked for the
night at Chenar-i-Naz, where the villagers made bitter com
plaint of the robbers' depredations.
On the 11th May Colonel Grant marched eastward to Herat-
i-Khurreh, moving by a route to the north of the one normally
used owing to his anticipations that the robbers would attempt
to recover their lost plunder. After crossing the Pir Zad pass
a right flank patrol was fired on, and Major Dyer, moving out
with five troops and two Lewis guns, attacked and drove the
enemy off a high ridge of hills to the south. In the meantime
the enemy had tried to cut off the animals crossing the Pir
*150 Labu Muhammadis, 200 Chehar Rahis.
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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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