‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 44. PART II. (From 16th to 31st March 1918).’ [‎92r] (188/474)

Content

The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 March 1918. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, which include: letters, telegrams, notes, reports, tables, and memoranda.

An index to the contents of this volume and a summary of the contents can be found at IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3295. The volume concerns:

• Appreciations [reports] and intelligence summaries from the Directorate of Military Operations dated 17 March 1918 (ff 43-45), 26 March 1918 (ff 174-176), 31 March 1918 (ff 232-233)
• Supplies, particularly of pig iron, timber, tinplate, and bacon
• Reports from the Royal Flying Corps of machines in service and pilots available
• Information concerning Dunsterforce, including composition levies for the force, and providing wireless stations
• Plan for the local harvest
• Movement of ships and loads transported
• The formation of three independent sunjaks [sanjaks]
• Formation of a new South Persian Rifles brigade
• Spheres of responsibility for branches of the intelligence system
• Dispatch of the 3rd Division to Egypt
• Jangali arrests of Noel (possibly Edward William Charles Noel); Monsieur Hunin, Belgian Customs Officer at Engali [Bandar-e Anzali]; and the Vice Consul at Kasht [Rasht]
• The escape of Hunin and another Belgian official from Jangali custody
• Dispatch of one squadron of British cavalry to Hamadan
• The murder of Captain W H Marshall, the disturbances at Najaf, and the blockade of the town
• Requests for asylum by Russian officers
• Reports on the Bakhtiaris [Bakhtiyārī tribe]
• Proposed despatch of British troops into Persia [Iran]
• Attack on Khan Baghdadi [Al Baghdadi] and Turkish [Ottoman] retreat
• Fears of a Jangali coup at Kasvin [Qazvin] and Tehran.

The following tables appear:

• Ration strength of Force D on 9 February 1918 (ff 8-15), 23 February 1918 (ff 51-55), 26 January 1918 (ff 106-112), 16 February 1918 (ff 198-205)
• Strength return and summaries of Force D on 16 February 1918 (ff 15-18), 19 January 1918 (ff 18-31), 26 January 1918 (ff 80-93)
• Distribution of the Turkish Army on 19 March 1918 (ff 73-75), 26 March 1918 (ff 172-174)
• State of supplies on 16 March 1918 (ff 100-101, 141-143), 23 March 1918 (ff 215-216, 221-222)
• Weekly return of the sick and wounded on 9 March 1918 (ff 154-155)
• Statement of animal transport and vehicles on 1 February 1918 (ff 162-171)
• Strength of the 3rd Division (ff 206-207).

Extent and format

1 volume (233 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 235; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-233; these numbers are printed and are located in the bottom centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Dimensions: 21 x 33cm

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English in Latin script

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