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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [222v] (453/660)
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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408 HISTORY OF THE WAR; MESOPOTAMIA
The artillery would begin to register their guns at 6.20 a m
and would open an intense twenty-five minute bombardment
at 6.45 a.m. on the whole Turkish front from the Tigris to a
point marked E on Map 20. During this bombardment
the 7th and 9th Brigades, in this order from the right, would
advance as near as possible to the Turkish line AZ, which they
would assault at 7.10 a.m. At 6.15 a.m. the 37th Brigade
would move towards the Narrows to be in a position whence
they could support the 7th and 9th Brigades.
After AZ had been captured, the 7th Brigade would clear the
Turkish front line up to the Tigris and would then occupy a
point on the river bank west of the series of canals and
consolidate a north and south line to connect with the right
of the 9th Brigade. This brigade would clear and block the
Turkish front line for a distance of 150 yards south-west of Z
and would then occupy and consolidate a fine along the canal
from Z northward as far as the east and west track leading to
Es Sinn. The 8 th Brigade was meanwhile to occupy the canal
from X to Z, converting it into a communication trench,
and also prepare it as a fire trench to face south-west as quickly
as possible.
The various movements in relief were duly carried out;
and the 7th and 9th Brigades, having effected their con
centration and deployment, were in position ready to advance
by 4.15 a.m. on the 17th April. The 7th Brigade were on the
right on a frontage of four hundred yards, with the 9th Brigade
on the left on a frontage of three hundred yards. The Connaught
Rangers were on the right of the 7th Brigade on a frontage of
one hundred yards disposed in great depth ; including drafts
for the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent battalion in Kut,
their effective strength was about 900 ; and their right was on
the northerly of the two canals. To their left, on a frontage
of three hundred yards, were the 27th Punjabis in three lines;
and the 89th Punjabis and 128th Pioneers, each also in three
lines, were in rear of the 27th. The 9th Brigade was on a
frontage of three hundred yards, with its left on the southerly
canal. In front were the 1/lst Gurkhas in two lines, with the
l/9th Gurkhas, also in two lines, and the 93rd Infantry and
Highland Light Infantry, each in one line, in rear of them.
The distance from the British line to the Turkish trench
to be attacked had been estimated in different reports to be
half a mile to a mile, but the general opinion was that it was
about a thousand yards. The artillery bombardment opened at
6.45 a.m. and ten minutes later the 7th and 9th Brigades began
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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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