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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [218v] (445/660)
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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400 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
On the left bank of the river a north-easterly gale, blowing
from 4.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. on the 12th, drove the water of the
Suwaikiya marsh in large waves right over the protective
embankments and flooded all the northern fire-trenches and
the most northerly communication trench of the 7 th Division
The British garrisons had to evacuate them hastily under heavy
enemy fire, and although they had to abandon their tools
blankets and kits, they managed to retrieve their machine
guns and rifles. They took up fresh positions behind the
parados of the flooded trenches and soon had an opportunity
of causing losses to the Turks, also in their turn flooded out of
the trenches on their left.
On the right bank the passage of the 9th Brigade to support
the front lines of the 3rd Division had so cut up the surface of
the causeway as to render it impracticable for the time being
for further traffic. The gale of the previous evening had,
moreover, driven the river flood with such force at the embank
ments on the right bank that considerable damage had been
caused and heavy repair work was found necessary throughout
the 13th April by the sappers and pioneers of the 13th Division,
assisted by the 36th Infantry Brigade brought up from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
.
Further, reconnaissance showed that the ground leading to the
area about and southward of Rohde’s Piquet was too much
inundated by floods, emanating from Bait Isa, to admit of the
advance of artillery over it.
On the left bank the marsh had receded somewhat with the
cessation of the wind, but the trenches remained flooded and
new ones had to be constructed. The enemy were also seen
to be hard at work from the same cause, and during the day
the activity of working parties on both sides gave rise to a
good deal of firing.
During the morning of the 13th April some readjustment
was made in the new front line occupied by the 3rd Division,
and, owing to a report that Turks were advancing from the
Dujaila redoubt direction, General Egerton ordered piquets
from the 128th Pioneers to occupy empty trenches at the
Triangle.
At midday General Gorringe, whose headquarters were b}
now established on the right bank near Fallahiya, informed
General Keary that it had been ascertained that the floods
between Bait Isa and the Umm al Baram were caused by the
Turks at Bait Isa, which it was consequently imperative to
capture before moving against the trenches to the southwar ,
i.e., the second objective given in General Gorringe s operation
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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)
- Arrangement
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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