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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [221r] (446/566)
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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T RAN S-C ASPIA
391
Staff to the Trans-Caspian commander (Oraz Sirdar—a Turko
man) took up his duties on the 1 st October, preparations were
begun for an advance.
On the 7th October General Malleson asked that he might be
given some indication of H.M. Government's intentions in
regard to future operations in Turkestan. The Trans-Caspian
Government, for the most part a collection of insignificant
adventurers, maintained, by a liberal distribution of blackmail,
a precarious and partial control over the armed mob for the
time being. There was a distinct danger of a pan-Islamic
Turkoman rising to seize power and to kill or eject all Russians,
such as had already occurred in areas adjoining the Persian
frontier ; and the Bolsheviks would be at liberty—when winter
conditions prevented extensive operations on their Orenburg
and Semirechia fronts—to concentrate against Askabad, where
our own detachment was the only reliable force. In fact,
Turkestan would, in General Malleson's opinion, continue in a
state of anarchy unless a compact British force were there.
In repeating this telegram to the War Office the Commander-
in-Chief in India said that he proposed to instruct General
Malleson to aim at keeping the railway from Krasnovodsk to
Kaahka in the hands of friendly elements. General Malleson,
he continued, had urged the necessity for driving the Bolsheviks
beyond Tejend and Merv, so as to gain access to the corn districts.
But General Monro considered that any advance should be
limited to an occupation of the Merv oasis and that even this
should not be undertaken until there were sufficient reliable
troops in Trans-Caspia and the political situation had been
fully reviewed. He was considering the possibility of sending
another Indian cavalry regiment to join General Malleson and
this, when the troops from Force D* had all arrived, would bring
the total at Krasnovodsk and on the Trans-Caspian railway up
to six squadrons of Indian cavalry, a field battery, a battalion
of British infantry, a section of a machine gun company, 500
rifles Indian infantry and 50 Persian levies. It might be
possible, said General Monro, to send also another Indian
infantry battalion.
The Trans-Caspian force had already completed its plan for
an advance to Dushak. Accompanied by the British detach
ment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Knollys (less
the company l/4th Hampshire, which remained at Kaahka) the
force advanced during the night 9th/10th October to a previously
* i.e., the Expeditionary Force under General Marshall in Mesopotamia.
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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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