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'Order of Battle Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force 1- 3-20 with correction slips' [33r] (65/234)
The record is made up of 1 file (115 folios). It was created in 7 Jan 1919-29 Nov 1921. 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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F rorn,: G. 0. C • }ic so pot uni o. •
To: War Office•
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X.1564 cipher 2 4th P’o'bruary. First of 2 parts.
In continuation of my X.1504 dated February 15th
corrections to Order of Battle M,F.F. are as follows
Page 4* Add 3rd/23rd Sikhs delete 5 Medium Batteries and
show on page 10 under artillery as awaiting shipment to
? India.
Page o. Delete 3rd/23rd Sikhs. Show following a-s - awaiting
shipment to India cadres 74th 76th and 77th Infantry Brigade
Headquarters 3/l24th Baluchis, 2/l23rd Rifles, Ist/llth
3/ 51h 3/8 th Gurkhe. s .
Page 6 . Delete K.O.Y.L#!. and show on page 10 as awaiting
shipment to Malta, Add 3rd/153rd Rifles to 55th Infantry
Brigade, delete 77th Brigade and e.ll its units showing Royal
Irish Fusiliers ? Battalions 53 Brigade and 45th Sikhs
1/(group undec.Jth and 106t.il Infant-/ l/10th Gurkhas on page 10
under Infant-/ as awaiting shipment to India. Ch this page
show 2nd 3.A.A. Section as awaiting shipment to India and show
34th 3.A.A. Section under 34th Infantry Brigade on page 5 .
P art II.
Delete 61st Company Sappers and Miners and show on page 12 .
Under attached delete Headquarters 13th Brigade R.P.A. 2nd and
132nd Battery and show on page ? 10 as awaiting shipment to
Lngland. Add 1/llfth Kahrattas, 2/llth Gurkhas, 3/9th Bhopals
showing all as under orders ? for India. Transfer 53rd Infantry
Brigade Headq'ia.rters as {sic} page 7 under 1 /th Division.
Pago 7. Transfer 53rd Infantry Brigade Headquarters and 1 st
Royal Irish Fusiliers from page 6 to page Delete 784th Mech
anical Transport Brigade Headquarters (sic). Transfer l/3rd
Gu rkha a
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Memoranda issued by General Officer Commanding/General Headquarters, Mesopotamia (all duplicated to Commander-in-Chief, India), to the War Office, listing the detailed corrections to be inserted into the Order of Battle of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, covering the period 9 October 1920-29 November 1921.
Note: there is one memorandum from General Headquarters, Baghdad, to the War Office, dated 10 August 1920. From 17 October 1921 onwards memoranda are from General Headquarters, Iraq, to the War Office.
File also contains, three printed official Order of Battle booklets:
- ‘Order of Battle of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Corrected to 7th January, 1919’, dated 7 January 1919
- ‘Order of Battle of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. 1st October 1919', dated 1 October 1919. Heavily annotated with manuscript corrections and updates in black ink
- ‘Order of Battle of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. 1st March 1920’ (in manuscript) ‘Corrected up to 11th June 1920’, dated 29 February 1920. Heavily annotated with manuscript corrections and updates in black and red ink and pencil and one typescript page inserted at the front listing British and Indian troops with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force on 1 March 1920.
Order of Battle booklets cover, with some variations, General Headquarters and troop organisation; organisation in detail (Army troops, Cavalry, Indian Army Corps); Divisions and Brigades; Lines of Communication – defences and administrative units (including river areas); distribution of artillery; index to Army Corps, divisions and brigades; and index to units (including medical units, ordnance, veterinary services, supply and transport, engineers, signal service, air service, artillery, machine gun corps, infantry).
The file documents detail the complete military establishment, movements and organizstion in Mesopotamia and developments over the period January 1919-November 1921.
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- 1 file (115 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 117; 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 multiple original printed pagination sequences.
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- 'Order of Battle Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force 1- 3-20 with correction slips'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:116v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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