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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [37v] (79/540)
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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HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
area* reinforced by the 6 th Cavalry Brigade, the bulk of the
15th Division and certain other units then quartered about
Orders^ for the concentration of the additional troops at
Falluia and detailed written instructions to General Brooking
were issued on the 14th and 15th September respectively. The
main difficulty was the question of supply and transport, as
the Baghdad—Falluj a road was an indifferent one and between
Falluja and Ramadi not much assistance could be given by
river transport on the Euphrates. For use in advance of
Falluja ten Fiat lorries and 350 Ford vans were placed at
General Brookins's disposal, as well us fifty cars of the 40th;
Motor Ambulance Convoy.
The troops from the Baghdad area marched in four echelons
at intervals of one day to concentrate at Falluja, the first
echelon leaving Baghdad on the 16th September and the last
echelon arriving at Falluja on the 22nd. The day temperature
was still high, and owing to this and to transport difficulties on
the incompletely repaired roads, the concentration was not
effected without some inconvenience and hardship to the
troops. General Brooking himself reached Falluja on the 18th
and, to cover the concentration, moved the first echelon (42nd
Infantry Brigade and certain other units) to Madhij and the
second echelon (12th Infantry Brigade) to Dhibban, where
they arrived on the 20 th.
By reducing to a minimum the garrisons there, General
Brooking made available from the troops in the Falluja area
the 6 th Jats, 97th Infantry (less one company) and 100 rifles
14th Sikhs to accompany his striking force ; and on the 20th
the 97th Infantry crossed the Sakhlawiya CanalJ and moved up
the left bank of the Euphrates, both to protect the right flank
* The troops already in the Falluja area were one squadron 10th Lancers,
the 222nd Brigade, R.F.A. (1070th, 1072nd and 77th Batteries), one section
21st Company Sappers and Miners, and the 50th Infantry Brigade (6th Jats,
14th Sikhs, 24th Punjabis and 97th Infantry). Of these, the 24th Punjabis
were in four detachments between the Hindiya Barrage and Nukhta and the
remainder were at Falluja or above that place, on both banks of the
Euphrates, as far as Dhibban and the mouth of the Sakhlawiya Canal.
f These reinforcements consisted of “ B ” Flight 30th Squadron, R.F.C.,
6th Cavalry Brigade (with proportion of cavalry divisional troops, including
“V” Battery, R.H.A.), 215th Brigade R.F.A. (1086th, 10S8th and 524th
Batteries), 72nd Battery, 246th Siege Battery (less one section), 448th and
451st Field Companies, R.E., Malerkotla Sapper Company, 32nd Sikh Pioneers
(less two companies), bridging train detachment, four armoured cars of the
13th Light Armoured Motor Battery, 12th and 42nd Infantry Brigades, three
pack wireless stations and administrative units.
J The men by a footbridge, the animals by swimming and stores by boat.
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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)
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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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