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'Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I - Report' [28v] (61/424)
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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allotted to the turning column. Even then, there were no water carts,
and no arrangements could be made for carrying additional drinking
water.
As the Turkish forces were divided on both banks of the river, General
Townshend determined to try and induce the Turkish Commander to
retain those on the right bank on that bank as long as possible. His
plan was as follows :—
The force was to be divided into two columns, A and B.'"
Column A consisted of—
16th and 17th Infantry Brigades.
30th Infantry Brigade (less 2| Battalions).
10th Brigade R.F.A. (less 1 Battery).
l-5th Hants Battery R.F.A. (T.F.).
D.A.C. (land section).
22nd Company S. & M.
Maxim Battery.
7 th and 16th Cavalry.
Ambulance units.
This column was destined for the turning movement, less the 30th
Infantry Brigade.
Column B consisted of—
18th Infantry Brigade.
Heavy Artillery.
63rd Battery R.F.A.
48th Pioneers.
17th Company S. & M.
D.A.C. (river section).
This column was destined for the subsidiary attack.
On the 26th September, the advance was to be begun from Abu
Rumman, Column A marching up the right bank to the Chahela mounds
and opposite Nukhailat.
Column Bin ships (less 63rd Battery R.F.A. and 48th Pioneers by
land) was to disembark at Nukhailat.
Column A was then to demonstrate, on the 27th September, beyond
the Chahela mounds, while Column B advanced up the left bank.
In the meantime the bridge would be brought up from Abu Rummani
and constructed at Nukhailat. Column A (less 30th Brigade) was then
to cross at dusk and carry out a night march, so as to place itself opposite
the Turkish trenches just south of the Ataba marsh, i .e., the extreme left
of the Turkish position.
At dawn on the 28th September, these trenches were to be assaulted
and the column would then sweep on towards the river. Column B
pressing home an a sault on the trenches between the Suwada marsh
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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)
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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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