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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [24r] (52/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (266 folios). It was created in 1927. 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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ATTACK ON RAMADI
23
armoured cars, followed by the remaining half of the 93rd
Infantry and section 133rd Machine Gun Company, moved out
from there at 5.30 p.m. and secured the Madhij defile, seven
miles to the westward,* without opposition, though soon after
its occupation hostile rifle fire was opened on the cavalry. By
midnight the whole force had concentrated at Madhij and, after
resting and watering there, recommenced its advance at 1 a.m.
on the 11th July, the half battalion 93rd and half section 133rd
Machine Gun Company being left to hold Madhij. No opposi
tion was encountered till 3.15 a.m., when the leading troops
were fired on by an enemy piquet on Mushaid Point, but this
was quickly driven off and the point occupied. Owing, however,
to the heavy sand along the route it was not till 4.45 a.m.
that the whole column concentrated there.
After a personal reconnaissance by Colonel Haldane and his
artillery commander from Mushaid Point, whence a good view
was obtainable, the armoured cars moved forward at 5.15 a.m.
to reconnoitre, with three companies 91st Punjabis, who had
been covering the advance, following them ; and the cavalry
pushed out to the right through the gardens along the river
bank. The armoured cars were stopped by fire from the banks
of the recently constructed Euphrates Valley Canal, which
connected the Euphrates with Lake Habbaniya, and by the
soft ground. But they brought back information to Colonel
Haldane that the Turkish left in the vicinity of the Regulator
House was strongly held and that the canal was impassable for
cars.f The advance of the 91st Punjabis was also stopped by
artillery fire about 5.25 a.m. ; and soon afterwards the 2/7th
Gurkhas, with half the 131st Machine Gun Company to guard
their left flank, were sent forward, supported by the 215th
Field Artillery Brigade, to attack south of the left of the 91st.
Of three aeroplanes, which had left Baghdad at 4.30 a.m. to
co-operate, two had already been forced down by the heat and
only one remained in action till about 10 a.m.
The enemy now disclosed six guns, two machine guns and a
considerable strength in rifles. His shell fire was very accurate,
putting our wireless out of action no less than three times and
thus preventing effective counter-battery work by the 66th and
524th Batteries. The Gurkha advance, with nearly two miles
to traverse, progressed steadily with only slight loss and about
6.30 a.m. the Turks evacuated the canal banks. The Gurkhas,
reaching the canal some twenty minutes later, crossed it and,
changing direction to the north-west, took up a line along the
Ramadi ridge with their right on the canal. Here they came
* See Map 34.
t It was some 150 feet wide, the water in places being three or four feet deep,
and the embankments on both sides of it were about 60 feet wide.
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The volume is the fourth 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 V. The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917-1918 - North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918', and consists of the following ten chapters:
- May, June and July 1917
- August and September 1917: The Capture of Ramadi
- October to December 1917 - Occupation of the Jabal Hamrin, Action of Tikrit and Death of General Maude
- January to March 1918: Dunsterville's Mission and the Action of Khan Baghdadi
- April and May 1918: Operations in Kurdistan and Arrangements to Counter the Turco-German Threat beyond our Northern Flank
- British Plans to Stop the Enemy's Advance into Persia and to Obtain Control of the Caspian
- The Fall of Baku
- British Advance up the Tigris: Actions of Fat-Ha Gorge and on the Little Zab
- The Battle of Sharqat and the Armistice
- Conclusion
The volume also includes fourteen maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Mesopotamia
- Map 34 - Operations near Ramadi: July and September 1917
- Map 35 - Operations in the Jabal Hamrin: October and December 1917
- Map 36 - Actions at Daur and Tikrit: 2nd and 5th November 1917
- Map 37 - Operations on the Euphrates line: March 1918
- Map 38 - Action of Khan Baghdadi: 26th March 1918
- Map 39 - Operations in the Kifri-Kirkuk area: April and May 1918
- Map 40 - The Cavalry affair of the 27th April 1918, and the action of Tuz Khurmatli, 29th April 1918
- Map 41 - Operations of "Dunsterforce", 1918
- Map 42 - Operations at Baku, August-September 1918
- Map 43 - Operations on the Tigris: 18th-30th October 1918
- Map 44 - Action by 7th Cavalry Brigade near Hadraniya: 29th October 1918
- Map 45 - Battle of Sharqat, 29th October 1918
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- 1 volume (266 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a preface (folios 5-6), a chronological summary of the campaign in Mesopotamia (folios 7-8), a list of contents (folios 8-11), a list of maps and illustrations (folios 11-12), appendices (folios 197-232), an index (folios 233-254), and twelve maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 256-267).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 268; 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 an original printed pagination sequence.
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