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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎176v] (357/566)

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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308
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
position and prevent him breaking away before the frontal
attack of the infantry. To ensure secrecy, news was spread
that the column was about to march back to Khunsar and
Chah Haq. But at 12.30 a.m. on the 16th May the column
slipped away quietly in the darkness and moved off in the
opposite direction for seven miles. A halt was then made and
the baggage, captured animals, etc., were left under a guard.
At 3.30 a.m. the Burma Mounted Infantry branched off from
the column to the southward to get round the enemy’s right and
at 4 a.m. the 15th Lancers' squadron trotted off to get round
the other flank, managing apparently to pass the mouth of the
Tang-i-Zard without being observed by the enemy. The head
of the infantry column arrived opposite this mouth at 4.30 a.m,,
and at a point about 1,600 yards from it one and a half companies
3/124th Baluchis* formed up for the frontal attack, with the
two mountain guns in action a little further back.
Starting their attack at 5 a.m. under cover of the fire from
the mountain, Maxim and Lewis guns, the infantry captured the
enemy’s main position in a little over half an hour and then
pursued up the further slopes. About 6 a.m. the Lewis guns
of the Burma Mounted Infantry could be heard in action on
the slopes on the enemy’s right and Colonel Grant ordered the
mountain guns forward to a second position above the cliffs.
By 8 a.m. all three converging units, the 15th Lancers, the
3/124th Baluchis and the Burma Mounted Infantry, had gained
touch with one another and had reached the snow line, with the
result that very few of the enemy escaped. Thirty of them
were taken prisoner and a very large number of them had been
killed. The British casualties amounted to only three wounded,
all among the Baluchis.
Operations After withdrawing, and as there was insufficient water at
Fars^May ^ang-i-Zard, the column moved off along the Arsinjan road;
’ 1918 . but, finding no water, the mounted portion of the column
pushed on the same night to Arsinjan, which they reached at
12.30 a.m. on the 17th May, having covered some fifty-two
miles in the twenty-four hours. From Arsinjan the column
moved back by the Isfahan road to Shiraz, where the rear
portion arrived on the 23rd May.
In these operations, whose success pleased Farman Farma
greatly as adding to the security of the districts traversed an
as enabling the revenue to be collected, the Chah Haqis, La a
Muhammadis and Chehar Rahis had all received severe pums
ment at a total cost to the British of 18 casualties. In a rep^
* A half-company was held in general reserve.

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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)
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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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