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'Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I - Report' [104r] (212/424)
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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10. Major Hill, R. E., will guide tlia columi].
11. On arrival at the position of deployment the Division will be formed
rU P in line of brigades facing west, 35th Infantry Brigade on right, 19th
Infantry Brigade in centre, and 21st Infantry Brigade on left, with
intervals of 1,000 yards between the flanks of brigades, Brigades will be
formsd up in lin3 ot battalions in column of double-companies with fifty
^yards interval between battalions.
The artillery will be in rear of the infantry.
Distance and intervals at the position of deployment to be taken from
the right flank of the 21st Infantry Brigade.
_12. Reports to the head of the left brigade.
(Signed) P. Davies, Lieutenant-Colonel,
General Staff, VII Division*
Issued to Signal Company for distribution at 1800.
Copy Nos. 1 and 2 Tigris Corps
3 19th Infantry Brigade.
4 21st Infantry Brigade.
5 35th Infantry Brigade.
6 O. C. R. A. (9th Brigade R. F. A.)
7 28th Infantry Brigade.
8 128th Pioneers.
9 7th Division Signs.
10 A. D. M. S. VII Division.
11 A. Q. M. G. VII Division.
12 Det. R. F. C.
13 S. N. O.
14 to 21 Diary and file.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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