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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [57r] (120/660)
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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CONDITION OF BRITISH FORCE
continuing the offensive next day. General Hoghton's column
was to hold V.P. and the trenches for one mile south of it •
General Delamam s troops were to continue the line to the
south , and General Hamilton’s men were to occupy the
trenches towards the river.
The concentration at “ V.P.” was unmolested by the Turks
who had ceased firing and withdrawn to their second line as
soon as it got dark. General Hamilton’s column and the
76th Punjabis, who were farthest away, all reached “ V.P.”
by 11.30 p.m., having in the meantime collected and sent in
all their wounded.
As the concentration proceeded, General Townshend realised
that his troops were in no condition to resume the offensive on
the morrow. General Hoghton could only muster 700 men
General Delamain had about 1,000, and there were only about
800 or 900 left in General Hamilton’s brigade.* General
Townshend accordingly modified his previous orders. As soon
as the columns had been reorganised he proposed to take up
a restricted front nearer to the river, where he could more
easily obtain water, replenish ammunition and food and
evacuate his wounded. The position he proposed to take up
extended roughly along the Turkish trenches from the river
southward of High Wall to the Water Redoubt.
During the night 22nd/23rd General Delamain, with a
mixed detachment of infantry and the 82nd Field and l/5th
Hants Howitzer Batteries held the Water Redoubt. His
original orders had been to advance and take up a position
from the Ctesiphon Arch to the Tigns, but this was found to
be impossible owing to the Turks being in position eastward of
Ctesiphon village. The remainder of the force, including
General Nixon and his headquarters, spent the night in the
vicinity of “V.P.”
The conditions obtaining in this part of the position—a mass
of trenches and wire—are mentioned in many private accounts
as being indescribable. When captured about 10 a.m. by
General Delamain’s column, its trenches were already full
of Turkish dead and wounded, and to these during the day the
British had added their quota. Many British wounded were
sent to its vicinity during the day and for a great part of
the night others, collected from all parts of the battlefield,
arrived in a constant stream.f The usual ambulance transport
These are the numbers given by General Townshend.
, j during the Turkish counter-attack in the afternoon many of the wounded
had to be moved to the rear to get them away from the Turkish shelling, but
most of them were brought back to " V.P.” after dark.
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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
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- 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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