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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [54r] (114/660)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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SERIOUS SITUATION SOUTH OF “ V p ”
83
sections to keep up a rapid covering fire, the 17th Brigade
moved off across the open plain at right angles to the direction
: ^<1 in which they had been attacking, at a range of from 1 000 to
main 1,500 yards from the hostile trenches. The Turks saw their
t yet opportunity and opened the heaviest possible rifle, machine gun
The and shrapnel fire, inflicting very heavy casualties. All
end’s accounts speak highly of the steadiness with which the
5hort movement was carried out, and all testify to the discipline
more and gallantry displayed by all ranks of the 17th Brigade
nst a which finally, greatly reduced in strength, reached the meagre
cover of a ditch some two hundred yards eastward of the
Dela- enemy’s line in the neighbourhood of Water Redoubt,
oemy To Generals Townshend and Delamain at “ V.P.” it was
ibout apparent that the position on their left was serious. The
tiead- advance of General Hoghton’s brigade—by now much scattered
is the —was definitely checked ; strong lines of Turkish reinforce-
illery ments could be seen advancing to reinforce their line south
from of “ V.P.” ; and Generals Townshend and Delamain were
donel unaware that the portion of Colonel Climo’s brigade which had
urmg moved southward from “ V.P.” was in the Turkish trenches
vhich between them and the redoubt north of Water Redoubt,
V.P." which was still held tenaciously by the Turks. It seemed
ibout essential that this redoubt. Water Redoubt and any others
tarter still held by Turks should be captured and that General Hoghton
was would require assistance to do so. Accordingly General Dela-
.cond main, having ordered a heavy artillery fire to be directed
!. against the advancing Turkish reinforcements, despatched
neans under command of Major Utterson, of the Dorsets, his last
econd remaining troops, i.e., half the 22nd Sapper Company and the
ineral half-battalion Dorsets, to support General Hoghton and capture
ma u] this redoubt.
e l ves , After heavy fighting and severe loss this combined attack
end a captured the redoubt, the garrison, consisting of a portion of
move ^e Turkish 142nd Regiment, being practically all killed or
captured after a most gallant defence. The advancing Turkish
orders reinforcements had been stopped by the British artillery fire
own* an( t General Hoghton, with his own men and those from General
nched Delamain’s column, attacked and carried first Water Redoubt
gbort and then the redoubt south of it.
e Meanwhile, Colonel Climo’s force was progressing westward
of‘‘V.P.” Led by portions of the Dorsets and 2/7th Gurkhas
and supported by portions of the 66 th Punjabis, 104th Rifles,
117th Mahrattas and 24th Punjabis, the attack met with stout
enemy resistance. But by about 11.30 a.m. they had captured
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The volume is the second volume of an official government publication compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volume was printed and published at His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
The contents provide a narrative of the operations of 1914-1918 in Mesopotamia, based mainly on official documents.
The volume is in one part, entitled, 'Part III. The First Campaign for Baghdad', and consists of the following fourteen chapters:
- The Decision to Advance to Baghdad
- Commencement of the Advance Towards Baghdad
- The Battle of Ctesiphon - the First Day's Operations
- Battle of Ctesiphon (Continued) and the British Retirement to Kut
- The Decision to Hold Kut and British Policy Consequent on the Failure to Reach Baghdad
- The Siege of Kut: First Phase (December 1915)
- Commencement of the Relief Operations
- The Action of Shaikh Saad
- The Action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. and the First Attack on Hanna
- Operations up to the End of February, 1916
- The Second Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Attack on the Dujaila Redoubt
- The Third Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Successful Advance to and First and Second Attacks on Sannaiyat
- The Last Attempt at Relief; Bait Isa and Sannaiyat
- The Siege of Kut; the Last Stages
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 8 - The Tigris from Kut al Amara to Baghdad
- Map 9 - The Battle of Ctesiphon
- Map 10 - The affair of Umm at Tubul
- Map 11 - The defence of Kut al Amara
- Map 12 - The fort at Kut; with special reference to the Turkish attack on 24th December 1915
- Map 13 - River Tigris between Ali Gharbi and Shumran
- Map 14 - The action at Shaikh Saad
- Map 15 - The action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
- Map 16 - The first attack on Hanna; 21st January 1916
- Map 17 - The attack on the Dujaila Redoubt, 8th March 1916
- Map 18 - To illustrate Tigris Corps Operation Order No. 26, dated 6th March 1916
- Map 19 - To illustrate operations between 10th March and end of April 1916
- Map 20 - The action of Bait Isa on 17th and 18th April 1916, and the attack on Sannaiyat 22nd April 1916
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (323 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of contents (folios 6-10), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 11), appendices (folios 254-290), an index (folios 291-312), and eleven maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 314-324).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 325; 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3r, 3r, 4r:70v, 72r:79r, 160v, 80r:102v, 104r:160r, 161r, 313v, 161v:281v, 283r:313v, back-i
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