'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [221v] (447/566)
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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392
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Trans- reconnoitred position within artillery range of Arman Sagad.
Caspia; intention was to attack at dawn any enemy trains there
OC i 9 i 8 ^ or, if they were not present, to destroy the armoured train which
* generally came up daily. But Arman Sagad proved to be empty
and no hostile armoured train appeared.
Having reported the enemy's absence, the two squadrons
28th Light Cavalry, under Major J. A. G. Kreyer, moved for
ward during the 10 th along a previously reconnoitred concealed
route south of the railway to a small village six miles south of
Dushak ; and here they waited so as to co-operate in an attack
which the main force, after a further advance during the night
lOth/llth, was to make on Dushak, from the north of the rail
way, at dawn on the 11th. The main force, apparently un
detected by the enemy, halted during the daylight hours of
the 10 th in a ruined village three miles north of Arman Sagad;
the railway between Kaahka and Arman Sagad was repaired;
and an armoured train moved up. But, when the time came to
start the night advance, it had to be abandoned, as the Trans-
Caspian troops declined to move on the ground that they had
no food. The 28th Light Cavalry were consequently recalled
and it was finally decided to postpone the attack on Dushak
till dawn on the 14th October.
On the 9th October, General Malleson telegraphed saying
that the news of the Allied successes had brought about an
immediate and striking improvement and that British prestige,
which had been rather shaken by the fall of Baku, now stood
very high.
On the 11th October General Malleson sent a long telegram,
summarising a report on the situation at Tashkend which a
Russian ex-officer and agent of the Turkestan Union had just
given him on return from a visit to that place. German in
fluence there was very strong, he said, and was working to
prevent the British obtaining a footing in Turkestan. The
Bolsheviks, disheartened at their failure to gain Askabad,
hoped to open up the Orenburg line, when the Germans promised
two divisions from Russia to settle affairs. But the hatre
towards the Bolsheviks was general and intense, their power
was tottering, and if the Trans-Caspian force could drive them
back to the Oxus all Bokhara would rise against them. 1 e
Turkestan Union had a strong party in Tashkend, though their
greatest asset was 4,000 good men in Trans-Caspia, w o
possesesd arms and were ready to rise, when, if they gained any
preliminary success, crowds would join them. General Malleso
informant was convinced that a successful rising coul
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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.
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