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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [206r] (420/660)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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HANNA POSITION OCCUPIED 375
by our air photographs. General Maude’s operation order was
drawn out in considerable detail on the lines that experience
in the trench warfare in France had shown to be necessary ;
and in his final paragraph he emphasised the necessity for
discipline, determination and dash.
At 4.55 a.m. on the 5th April, the 13th Division moved
forward to the assault and, meeting with only slight opposition,
carried the enemy s first and second lines in quick succession.
A further immediate advance was only rendered impossible
by the fire of the British artillery, who, not knowing that there
was no enemy opposition and being unable in the dim light to
distinguish the infantry signals, did not lift their fire until
about 5.35 a.m. A few minutes later, the Turkish third line
was occupied and found empty ; and, continuing to advance,
the 13th Division had occupied the enemy’s fourth and fifth
lines by 7 a.m. It appears that the Turks had evacuated the
position during the night, leaving only a small infantry rear
guard with a few machine guns to hold their front line.
Turkish prisoners captured that morning said that the
evacuation had been forced on them by flood encroachments,
and this may well have been the case. Whatever the reason,
their retreat had been well carried out and in the nick of time.
General Gorringe heard of this evacuation about 6.30 a.m.
from his airmen and also that the Turks were holding their
Fallahiya and Abu Rumman positions and reinforcing strongly
their Sannaiyat position.
At 7.30 a.m. General Maude sent forward General Lewin’s
40th Infantry Brigade with orders to secure a line between
river and marsh some 2,000 yards eastward of the Fallahiya
position, while the two other brigades reformed. This Turkish
position extended northward to the marsh from the northern
extremity of the Fallahiya bend and was believed to consist
of several lines of trenches. The 40th Brigade as they advanced
came under a gradually increasing rifle, machine gun and gun
fire, but they pushed on and occupied a line somewhat in
advance of that indicated to them. Here, as most of them were
in the open without cover, they sustained fairly heavy casualties.
General Maude had also sent orders at 7.30 a.m. to Colonel
Musgrave’s artillery to advance to positions from which they
could bombard the Fallahiya trenches.
At 8.40 a.m. General O’Dowda’s 38th Infantry Brigade was
ordered to advance to the line indicated an hour before to the
40th Brigade and to entrench its northern half while the 40th
Brigade extended to the Tigris on its left; and General Cayley’s
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The volume is the second 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 III. The First Campaign for Baghdad', and consists of the following fourteen chapters:
- The Decision to Advance to Baghdad
- Commencement of the Advance Towards Baghdad
- The Battle of Ctesiphon - the First Day's Operations
- Battle of Ctesiphon (Continued) and the British Retirement to Kut
- The Decision to Hold Kut and British Policy Consequent on the Failure to Reach Baghdad
- The Siege of Kut: First Phase (December 1915)
- Commencement of the Relief Operations
- The Action of Shaikh Saad
- The Action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. and the First Attack on Hanna
- Operations up to the End of February, 1916
- The Second Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Attack on the Dujaila Redoubt
- The Third Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Successful Advance to and First and Second Attacks on Sannaiyat
- The Last Attempt at Relief; Bait Isa and Sannaiyat
- The Siege of Kut; the Last Stages
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 8 - The Tigris from Kut al Amara to Baghdad
- Map 9 - The Battle of Ctesiphon
- Map 10 - The affair of Umm at Tubul
- Map 11 - The defence of Kut al Amara
- Map 12 - The fort at Kut; with special reference to the Turkish attack on 24th December 1915
- Map 13 - River Tigris between Ali Gharbi and Shumran
- Map 14 - The action at Shaikh Saad
- Map 15 - The action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
- Map 16 - The first attack on Hanna; 21st January 1916
- Map 17 - The attack on the Dujaila Redoubt, 8th March 1916
- Map 18 - To illustrate Tigris Corps Operation Order No. 26, dated 6th March 1916
- Map 19 - To illustrate operations between 10th March and end of April 1916
- Map 20 - The action of Bait Isa on 17th and 18th April 1916, and the attack on Sannaiyat 22nd April 1916
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- 1 volume (323 folios)
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The volume contains a list of contents (folios 6-10), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 11), appendices (folios 254-290), an index (folios 291-312), and eleven maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 314-324).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 325; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3r, 3r, 4r:70v, 72r:79r, 160v, 80r:102v, 104r:160r, 161r, 313v, 161v:281v, 283r:313v, back-i
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