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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [124r] (252/540)
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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garrison and that—even if it were possible—to send a small
force there would achieve no result.
General Dunsterville paid a visit to Baghdad from the 18th
to the 20th July, going part of the way there and back by
aeroplane and arriving back at Kazvin on the 24th. On the
19th the General Officer Commanding in Mesopotamia informed
the War Office that, if the Jelus succeeded in meeting the convoy
of ammunition from Hamadan, General Dunsterville would
send some officers and non-commissioned officers to assist them,
communication with them would be kept open and more
ammunition sent them. General Dunsterville wished to send
a mountain battery and 500 infantry to Urmia to assist them
and to threaten Tabriz, so as to help Baku by diverting Turkish
troops from the Caucasus. But he himself did not agree.
Dunsterforce was already much split up, further dispersion
seemed undesirable and, in any case,till their transport reached
Hamadan about the 5th August, the 39th Brigade Infantry
could not leave that place.* A threat to Tabriz, in which area
the Turks had two divisions with two more reported on their way
there, might precipitate a Turkish attack on the Jelus from the
north and across Lake Urmia. In this case the Jelus would
have to retire to the south, and it would be impossible to
evacuate their population of 80,000.
Knowing the dilatoriness of the Turks and that they were
fully occupied in the Caucasus, the General Officer Commanding
in Mesopotamia did not wish to bring matters to a head by
sending troops where he would find it very difficult to maintain
them ; and he preferred to limit his assistance to arms, ammuni
tion and money. It was true that this limited assistance would
not prevent the ultimate defeat and probable massacre of the
Jelus if the Turks made an attack on them in force. But if it was
our policy to protect them in every way possible, this could
best be done by an advance, when the weather permitted, to
Altun Kopri, if transport was available. For, once we were
established on the Little Zab, the Turks would evacuate
Sulaimaniya and we should be in a better position to establish
touch with the Jelus and to help them. Finally, as the Turkish
troops on the Baku front were different! from those in the Tabriz
area, the General Officer Commanding did not think that any
action about Urmia would affect the Baku situation.
* By the 16th July about 1,100 infantry of the 39th Brigade had reached
Hamadan.
t This expression in the telegram presumably refers to the reports that the
Turks on the Baku front belonged to a different army to those in the Tabriz
area.
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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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- 'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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