'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME III.' [‎206r] (416/534)

Content

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

Extent and format

1 volume (263 folios)

Arrangement

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).

Physical characteristics

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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English in Latin script

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