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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [151r] (310/660)
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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AYLMER’S OPERATION ORDERS 267
the strength of the Turkish force in the defile and the intelligence
estimates for some days past had been considerably confused
bv reports from Kut of large hostile bodies moving past there
both up and downstream. All attempts on the part of the
British, however, to advance on the left bank invariably met
with heavy hostile fire.
At 6.30 a.m. on the 20th January General Aylmer issued
his orders for the attack on the 21st. At 6.30 a.m. or as
soon as it was light enough to see their target, the artillery
were to bombard the enemy’s first line of trenches for ten
minutes and during this bombardment the 7th Division
were to advance to within 150 to 200 yards of the enemy
trenches if they had not got within that distance during
the bombardments of the 20 th and the night of the 20 th/ 21 st.
The bombardment would then lift on to the enemy’s second
line, also for ten minutes,* the cessation of the bombardmeht
of the enemy’s first line being the signal for the 7th Division
to assault. Their main attack was to be delivered against
the half of the enemy’s front nearest the river, the 35th
Brigade being directed against the enemy bastion about five
hundred yards from the river and the small salient work close
to the river bank. The 9th Brigade was to support the main
attack under the orders of the commander of the 7th Division.
The 28th Brigade were to form General Reserve under
General Aylmer’s orders ; the Cavalry Brigade were to be in
observation on the extreme right of the 7th Division ; the 2nd
Rajputs were to protect the shipping and the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
bridge ;
and General Aylmer’s headquarters would be in the Mejidieh,
about one and a half miles upstream of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
.
Orders were issued on the 20th to ensure the immediate
advance of all vessels and baggage, if the assault was successful.
During the 20th, the artillery bombardment,! in which the
guns of the Cranefly and Dragonfly co-operated, was carried
out as arranged under the orders of the Brigadier-General
Commanding the Royal Artillery.J The results of this bom
bardment, as estimated by General Aylmer, are shown by his
report of that evening to General Nixon :—
“ . . . . From observations made throughout the day
from all accessible points, result of bombardment to-day
appears to have been eff ective, but heavy rifle fire has been
* The infantry enfilading fire from the right bank was to conform to this
change of target.
t For the approximate position of the different guns, see Map 16.
+ Brigadier-General L. A. C. Gordon, R.A., had taken up this appointment
on the 15th January.
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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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