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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [250v] (507/566)
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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OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Trans-
Caspia ;
January
1919 .
Trans-
Caspia;
February
1919 .
Trans-Caspian right and by about 5 p.m., when the Bolshevik
attack against the Trans-Caspian left was beginning to break up,
the 28th Light Cavalry and the Turkomans had been driven back
and one of the armoured trains had been surrounded. Its crew
of Russian ex-officers, however, jumped out and, charging the
enemy with gallantry and vigour, just as a platoon of Punjabis
came up to their assistance, brought him to a standstill. By
this time the main Bolshevik force was in full flight across the
desert and, seeing this, those attacking the Trans-Caspian right
also broke and fled. The Meshed Detachment and some of the
Turkoman horse pursued, but the 28th Light Cavalry from
Bairam Ali had not yet arrived and the enemy managed to save
his guns, although he lost seven machine guns. His casualties
had been severe, nearly 200 corpses being found next morning,
his total losses being subsequently estimated at 600. In addition,
it was said, the bitter cold had caused him about 500 cases of
frost-bite.
The Trans-Caspian casualties totalled about 70 and those
among the Punjabis 46.
It was subsequently ascertained that the Bolshevik plan had
been to cut the railway and telegraph communications and then
immediately surprise and overwhelm the Annenkovo detach
ment by simultaneous attacks against both flanks, that against
the left being carried out by 2,500 infantry and the one against
the other flank by 1,500 infantry.
This affair enhanced greatly the already high reputation
locally of the Indian troops.
General Milne met General Malleson at Askabad on the 27th
January and, after visiting Merv and the front, ordered certain
alterations in the distribution of the British troops. The whole
of the 28th Light Cavalry were to be concentrated at the front;
the weak company l/4th Hampshire was to return to Mesopo
tamia, being replaced at Merv by a company of the 9th Royal
Warwickshire ; and Askabad was to be garrisoned by infantry
only, i.e., a company 9th Royal Warwickshire and a company
l/19th Punjabis.
He also arranged that Kizil Arvat, where danger threatened
from the Yamut country, was to be occupied by a detachment
from Baku.
On the 1st February General Milne telegraphed to the War
Office at some length, giving his views on the situation which,
he considered, called for an immediate decision as to our future
policy. The recent telegraphic reports to India from General
Malleson, he said, presented very fairly the political, economic
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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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