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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [223v] (451/566)
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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396
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
admiration for the part played by the British and Indian
troops, whom they regarded as being equal to ten times their
own number of any of the other combatants.
Trans- As the first reports that reached General Malleson at Meshed
Caspia ; G f ^ fighting at Dushak were of rather an alarming character
c o er 191 . ^ SU gg es ted on the 15th October to Army Headquarters in
India that if it were proposed to send him any additional troops
it would be as well to despatch them at an early date. He had
no troops at Meshed available either to reinforce Trans-Caspia
or to replace casualties there. On the 16th he gave the total
estimated casualties as 178 and asked urgently for their re
placement. He also suggested that a cavalry regiment should
be sent from India forthwith as a first reinforcement. In
consequence of these telegrams, orders were sent from Simla to
General Wapshare at Quetta on the 17th October to despatch
to Meshed as early as possible the headquarters and two re
maining squadrons of the 41st Cavalry—a newly raised unit, in
which the squadrons 15th and 37th Lancers already sent to
East Persia had been embodied ; and at the same time arrange
ments were made to mobilise the 42nd Cavalry as a further
reinforcement.
These orders crossed a telegram from General Malleson sub
mitting further considerations affecting the question of future
British intentions in Turkestan. The whole country was in a
state of anarchy and he did not think that an armistice in
Europe would have any effect on it. The Trans-Caspian Govern
ment was incompetent and powerless, and a Turkoman bid for
power was possible. This would mean a pan-Islamic rising and
continued anarchy, possibly spreading to Khurasan and Herat.
Our very small force could hardly stop a Bolshevik advance in
strength into Trans-Caspia, which we were pledged to defend
against all enemies, an expression interpreted everywhere in
Trans-Caspia as including the Bolsheviks. British troops were
urgently required, as the Russians could not be depended upon.
In conclusion, General Malleson expressed the opinion that the
whole of Trans-Caspia could be quickly recovered by a force
of three cavalry regiments, three batteries, an infantry brigade
and a few armoured cars and aeroplanes.
On the 18th October the Government of India received a
telegram sent the previous day by 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.
regarding
the difficulty of obtaining currency in Persia, in which they
requested that General Malleson should be warned not to
commit H.M. Government to any financial assistance to t e
Trans-Caspian Government beyond what had already been
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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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