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'Military Lessons of the Arab Rebellion in Palestine 1936' [84r] (172/294)
The record is made up of 1 volume (142 folios). It was created in Feb 1938. 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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44816-1
123
whether that energy might not have been better expended in the more
direct suppression of rebellion.
Whether troops or police were better suited to provide any guard
depended chiefly upon the type and scale of attack expected. Again
both employed quite different methods. The police guard did not
advertise its presence: it was there as much to catch individual wrong
doers as to guard the property in its charge, and was seldom strong
enough to resist a determined attack in any strength. The military
guard on the other hand was solely concerned with keeping away attackers,
which it did by a plain display of force or if that was not enough by-
opening fire: it was ready to resist any attack but was by no means
suitable for making arrests. A military guard was therefore always
more extravagant in personnel and was preferable only at points where
serious attack might be expected, so that it would have been more
logical to use police at places where the individual saboteur (who was
much better captured than driven off) was the principal danger.
picquets and escorts were mostly utilized in the protection of com
munications, and are more the province of the following chapter. Pic
quets were however also used in some cases to prevent the sniping of camps,
and it may be convenient to include here some notes as to the forms
which they took.
The most useful type was found to be the "Sangar Picquet" illustrated
on Page 82 of the Field Service Pocket Book 1952 . The walls required
careful building, and consisted as a rule of two outer skins of rock
about one foot apart with the space between filled in with small stones
and earth. The inner wall had to be high enough to prevent tne men on
the far side of the picquet from being hit. A double-apron barbed wire
fence surrounded the post at a distance of about 20 yards from the outer
wall, and inside there were five double-ridge tents for the garrison
and a bell tent for a native police guide. The space required was
about 24 yards square, which was sufficient to accommodate a platoon
about 20 strong. Latrines and ablution accommodation were usually ^
Picquets
was being established or withdrawn, e
place at much the same hour each day.
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Report detailing the military lessons of the Arab rebellion in Palestine in 1936 that was compiled by General Staff, Headquarters, The British Forces, Palestine & Trans-Jordan.
The report is divided up into chapters as follows:
- Introduction
- A Short History of the Rebellion I - to the end of June, 1936
- A Short History of the Rebellion II - from the 1st July, 1936 to the end of the year
- Conditions in Palestine as Affecting Operations
- Commanders and Staffs
- Intelligence
- Intercommunication
- Administration
- Transport
- Weapons and Equipment
- The Employment of Various Arms
- The Employment of Aircraft in Co-operation with Troops
- Defensive Action
- Protection of Communications
- Offensive Action
- Conclusion - Summary of Main Lessons
The report contains 46 photographs and a number of diagrams which are located throughout the volume. It also contains four maps, found at folios 140-143.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (142 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a contents page on folio 3.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 144; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Military Lessons of the Arab Rebellion in Palestine 1936'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:110v, 111ar:111av, 111r:139v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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