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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME III.' [117v] (239/534)
The record is made up of 1 volume (263 folios). It was created in 1925. 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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210 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
Telegraphing on the 3rd, General Maude said that it was still
impossible to give anything like an accurate list of captured
guns, arms and other material, as it was strewn over eighty
miles of country, much of it had been buried and much thrown
into the river. It is believed that out of their total of 91 guns,
the Turks only managed to get 28 safely away; we captured
39 and the remainder were said to have been thrown into the
river.
The decision, announced in the telegrams from the Chief of
the Imperial General Staff, to postpone the withdrawal of the
13th Division from Mesopotamia is noteworthy. It meant an
increase to the force there by practically another division ; as
the first of the thirteen fresh Indian battalions* coming from
India reached Basra on the 4th March. With regard to the chances
of getting further troops from India, although the progress made
in raising new battalions, under General Monro’s direction,
had been good, at the end of February he had to inform the
Chief of the Imperial General Staff that it was impossible to
raise units there as quickly as in Great Britain. The machinery
for it was not available and it took time He hoped, therefore,
that Sir William Robertson would give him ample notice and
an indication of what he considered should be furnished.
General Monro said that India was aware of her responsibilities
and desired to accept them in full; and he was convinced that
the more the Chief of the Imperial General Staff took the
authorities in India into his confidence the more prompt and
certain would be their response.
While at Aziziya, General Maude learnt little that was definite
of Turkish reinforcements ; it seemed clear that the Turkish
force on the Persian front was withdrawing and that another
infantry regiment had recently joined the XVIII Turkish
Corps, while two more regiments had reached Baghdad; and
there were reports that the Turkish Sixth Army commander,
Halil, had resigned owing to the non-arrival of promised
reinforcements, that Ibn Rashid, one of the rival Amirs of
Central Arabia, had told the Turks that he could give them
no more assistance and that the Turkish garrison had with
drawn from Hail (in Nejd).
In a letter to General Whigham written a few days after
leaving Aziziya, in speaking of the operations up to the
•They were :—Guides Infantry, 24th, 84th and 87th Punjabis, 42nd, 95th,
99th and 113th Infantry, 116th Mahrattas, l/5th and l/6th Gurkhas, 2/jytb
Garhwalis and 32nd Sikh Pioneers.
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The volume is the third volume of an official government publication compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volume was printed and published at His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
The contents provide a narrative of the operations of 1914-1918 in Mesopotamia, based mainly on official documents.
The volume is in one part, entitled, 'Part IV. The Capture and Consolidation of Baghdad', and consists of the following ten chapters:
- May to September, 1916
- September to 12th December, 1916
- The Battle of Kut al Amara, 1917
- The Battle of Kut al Amara, 1917 (continued)
- The Battle of Kut al Amara, 1917 (concluded)
- Pursuit: The British Reach Aziziya
- The Occupation of Baghdad
- Consolidation of the British Position at Baghdad: Operations from 12-31st March, 1917
- Operations Round Baghdad; 1st-18th April, 1917
- Operations to the North and North-Westward of Baghdad; 19th-30th April, 1917
The volume also includes fifteen maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Upper Mesopotamia
- Map 21 - Operations on the Tigris front, May to 12th December, 1916
- Map 22 - Operations on the Tigris: 13th December, 1916-25th February, 1917
- Map 23 - Operations against the Hai Salient and the Dahra Bend positions, and the passage of the Tigris: 11th January-24th February, 1917
- Map 24 - The British advance from Shumran to Bawi: 25th February-6th March, 1917
- Map 25 - Operations resulting in the capture of Baghdad on 11th March, 1917
- Map 26 - Area north of Baghdad
- Map 27 - The action at Mushahida: 14th March, 1917
- Map 28 - The first action of the Jabal Hamrin: 25th March, 1917
- Map 29 - The affair of Duqma: 29th March, 1917
- Map 30 - Operations about the Khalis Canal: 9th-15th April, 1917
- Map 31 - The passage of the Adhaim: 18th April, 1917
- Map 32 - The action of Istabulat: 21st and 22nd April, 1917
- Map 33 - The action of Adhaim: 30th April, 1917
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- 1 volume (263 folios)
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The volume contains a list of contents (folios 6-8), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 9), appendices (folios 208-232), an index (folios 233-253), and ten maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 255-264).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 265; 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:148v, 150r:158v, 160r:178v, 180r:184v, 186r:203v, 205r:254v, back-i
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