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'Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I - Report' [196v] (397/424)
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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APPENDIX IV.
Order of Battle—General Townshend's force.
Headquarters of the 6th (Poona) Division
16th Indian Infantry Brigade—Commander Brig.-General W. S. Delamain, c.B f9
J j .S.O.
2nd Dorset Regiment.
66th Punjabis.
104th WelJesley's Rifles.
117th Mahrattas
i7th Indian Infantry Brigade—Commander Brig.-General F. A. Hoghton
1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
22nd Punjabis.
103rd Mahratta Light Infantry.
119th Infantry. (The Mooltan Regiment.)
18th Indian Infantry Brigade—Commander Major-General C. I. Fry, c.B.
2nd Norfolk Regiment.
7tb D.C.O. Rajputs.
110th Mahratta Light Infantry,
120th Rajputana Infantry.
Divisional Troops—
7th Hariana Lancers.
16th Cavalry.
10thBrigade, Royal Field Artillery (63rd, 76th, 82nd Batteries), all 18-pounders,
l/5th Hampshire (Howitzer) Battery R. A. (Territorial Force), four 5"
howitzers.
86th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, four 5" guns
104th Heavy Batterv, Roval Garrison Artiliery (less 1 section) v > ca: '- ried on
two 4" guns - bar g es -
Divisional Ammunition Column.
2 4*7 // Naval guns—carried on horse boats.
IMachine-gun Battery (from 12th Division).
17th and 22nd Companies, 3rd Sappers and Miners.
48th Pioneers.
•34th Divisional Signal Company.
1 section, Army Corps Signal Company.
2 Pack Sets Wireless (one on S. S. " Mejidieh," one on S. S. " Malamir" ).
4 Aeroplanes (Maurice Farman and Martynside).
Bridging Train, 1st Sappers and Miners.
Searchlight Section.
'3 F. Ambulances.
'3 Naval armed launches (Comet, Shaitan, Sumana) and 2 seaplanes.
30th Indian Infantry Brigade—Commander Lieutenant-Colonel Climo—
'2/7th Gurkha Rifles.
76th Punjabis (less 2 companies).
This Brigade belonged to the 12th Division. It only consisted of 3 Battalions.
The 3rd Battalion (24th Punjabis) and 2 companies 76th Punjabis were on
the Tigris Line of Communication (Ali Gharbi, Arnara, Qaler Salih;.
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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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