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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [205v] (415/566)
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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360
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
and, according to the Trans-Caspian account, inflicted 350
casualties on the enemy. Two of the Indian detachment were
wounded and one of its machine guns had to be abandoned after
two men had been burnt in trying to carry it out of action.
The Trans-Caspian force, thoroughly demoralised, fell back to
Merv and on the 14th August, after damaging the bridge over
the Murghab river, retired before a Bolshevik advance without
attempting resistance past Tejend to Dushak. The Indian
machine gun detachment, every man being ill with influenza,
returned to Muhammadabad.
The Malleson On learning of this defeat, General Malleson arranged to
Mission and sen( j f rom Meshed the headquarters and two companies (325
clspia; rifles) 19th Punjabis, under Lieut.-Colonel D. E. Knollys, to
August 1918 ! join the detachment at Muhammadabad,with a view to assisting
the Trans-Caspian force. This detachment* with a section of a
field ambulance, left Meshed on the 16th August and arrived
at Muhammadabad on the 25th. In the meantime, on the
19th, owing to the appeals of the Trans-Caspian Government
and the necessity of checking the Bolshevik advance, General
Malleson, after ascertaining from India that such a course was
not considered too risky, had ordered the 175 Punjabi rifles at
Muhammadabad to join the Trans-Caspian force at Dushak.
They arrived there on the 20th August by a train which also
brought two Russian field guns from Krasnovodsk. But, as
the position at Dushak proved to be unsuitable, the combined
force moved back to Kaahka, where it was joined by Colonel
Knollys' detachment on the evening of the 26th. The enemy,
whose trains were twelve miles away, had that day made a
reconnaissance in force.
The country was mainly flat, sandy desert with occasional
low sand hills, though in the few places where water was available
the soil was extremely fertile, as in the two main oases of Merv
and Tejend. The climate was one of extremes with practical y
no rainfall, and most of the stations had to be supplied wi
water by train, for which oil was the principal fuel. The railway
was a broad-gauge single line, on which both sides were entire y
dependent for transportation. In fact, the two opposing orce
lived and moved in long processions of trains covered ^7
or more armoured trains in which they protected themsev
at night by removing some of the rails on the side neares
enemy. Having a large element of expert railwaymen amo
* Its equipment was deficient in several respects owing to
took to get stores from India.
the long time
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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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