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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [207r] (418/566)
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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SUGGESTED UNITY OF COMMAND
363
a road fit for motors were very great indeed, and to assist him
it was arranged to send him half a labour corps (600 men)
from India.
The recent rapid change in the strategical situation, both Suggestion
in France and in the Caucasus and Caspian areas, led the f ° r unif y‘ n g
Commander-in-Chief in India on the 21st August to telegraph ofali 0 British
his views to the War Office at some length. Some six weeks forces east of
previously the Chief of the Imperial General Staff had antici- iois
pated that Germany would make no serious military effort in
Asia until her main effort in Europe either collapsed or was
suspended; and it seemed to Sir Charles Monro that these
conditions might soon be realised. On the assumption that the
war would continue in 1919 and that the strategical centre of
gravity might swing eastward, he gave his opinion on possible
developments and measures to meet them. He considered that
the existing diffusion of responsibility and duality of control
in the eastern theatres of operations militated gravely against
swift decision and effective action, and he advocated the adop
tion in the East of the principle of unity of control and com
mand by forming the forces in theatres east of Suez into one
group for military command and political control, which he
suggested should be centralised in India. Apart from the
question of an Eastern command, he also advocated the
creation of one North Persia command to include the missions
and forces under Generals Dunsterville and Malleson.
Sir Charles Monro then went on to discuss the various im
mediate objectives open to Germany in the East, and he
emphasised the ample railway communications at her disposal
as compared with our own very backward conditions in this
respect. Though, he said, the best method of checking a
German advance towards Afghanistan and the Indian frontier
would be to obtain control of North-West Persia and the
Caspian, we might fail to do this. It therefore seemed essential
that we should be in a position to exercise strong military
pressure from Meshed ; and for this the extension northward of
the railway from Mirjawa was imperative.
This telegram crossed one from the
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.
conveying
the sanction of H.M. Government to the extension of the railway
as far as Duzdab and to the completion of the survey to Neh.
The extension to this place could be considered later in the light
of the situation when railhead approached Duzdab.
(27782)
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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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