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'Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I - Report' [13r] (30/424)
The record is made up of 1 volume (208 folios). It was created in 1925. 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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11
Kiver transport was even more important. The transport available
at the time of the capture of Basra was—
3 steamers Mejidieh, Julnar, Salimi and 17 lighters.
These sufficed only to carry 2 battalions with supplies for one week.
On the 23rd November 1914 a R. I. M. officer with the Force recom
mended the immediate order of 12 steamers of the Mejidieh class. Tlii&
was not considered an urgent matter and the proposal was dropped.
According to the Mesopotamia Commission General Barrett realized
at this time that the Force might have to advance as far as Amara and
Nasiriya. If he realized this his staff must have known it. They seem
therefore to have displayed a lack of foresight in this most important
matter of river transport. We have already seen that even at this
stage the division as a whole was immobile on land. It was equally
immobile on the river.
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The volume is Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917. Compiled by officers of the Staff College, Quetta, October-November 1923. Part I - Report (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1925). The volume is published by the General Staff Army Headquarters, India.
The volume is divided into twenty-five chapters, which cover the whole campaign in detail from December 1914 to April 1917, including the origins of the campaign; the British advance on Baghdad-Ctesiphon; operations at Kut [Al-Kūt]; the capture of Baghdad; and general reflections on the campaign.
The volume includes nineteen photographic illustrations.
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- 1 volume (208 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a table of contents on folio 4. The volume also contains a list of illustrations (f 6) and list of maps and sketches that appear in Part II [IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2] (f 5). There is an index to the volume between ff 205-208.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 210 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the sequence used to determine the order of pages.
Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-361 (ff 8-208).
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- 'Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I - Report'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:209v, back-i
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