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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [85r] (174/540)
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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BRITISH PURSUIT
133
At 5.35 a.m., General Brooking telegraphed congratulating
General Cassels and directing him to get back Colonel Tennant,
commanding the Air Force* ; and at 6 a.m. General Brooking
sent a further message to General Cassels saying that a battalion
of the 42nd Infantry Brigade was moving to relieve him of
his prisoners, that he was then to raid Ana and that Hogg's
Group had been ordered to Haditha.
At 6.30 a.m. General Brooking issued his orders for a general
pursuit. Hogg’s Group, with the double-horsed 1072nd
Field Battery and a wireless set carried in Ford vans, was to
seize Haditha, where he was to be joined by the Hertfordshire
Yeomanry and 10th Lancers’ squadrons and from where he was
to send back at least two hundred Ford vans to report to the
Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General by 5 p.m. ; and
the Reserve Group (under Colonel Brodrick), reinforced by a
battery, was to march to the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Haqlan (about four miles
south of Haditha).
By 7 a.m.—when the total British captures amounted to
between 3,000 and 4,000 prisoners, ten guns, many machine
guns and much war material—the situation was briefly as
follows. Six cars of the 13th Light Armoured Motor Battery,
with the remainder of the Light Armoured Motor Brigade
(including the 8 th Battery from Hogg’s Group) preparing to
follow them, were well on their way to Haditha, towards which
place Hogg’s Group was also advancing. The 11th Cavalry
Brigade was concentrating about Alus ; Andrew’s Group had
reached the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hauran ; Lucas’ Group was within four miles
of it to the southward ; and the Reserve Group had just
started to advance from the vicinity of Khan Baghdadi.
Andrew’s and Lucas’ Group were to clear the battlefield and
the 215th Field Artillery Brigade and the 395th Siege Battery
were to move back to Sahiliya to ease the supply situation.
General Brooking was on his way by motor to see his infantry
brigade commanders and General Cassels.
Capturing a number of Turkish transport wagons with
their escorts en route and also about 100 prisoners after a
short action southward of the town, the 13th Light Armoured
Motor Battery reached Hadithaf without difficulty ; and Hogg’s
Group, following it, arrived there about 10 a.m. Con
tinuing to advance for some miles beyond Haditha, these
* An aeroplane, piloted by Colonel Tennant, and carrying Major Hobart
(Brigade Major, 8th Infantry Brigade) as a passenger, had been shot down
on the 25th March near the Khan Baghdadi position ; and both officers had
been taken prisoner. .
t It was found that the Germans here had burnt their wireless installation.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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