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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [183r] (374/660)
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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INFANTRY ADVANCE
331
that up to this time neither the 9th, 28th or 36th Brigades had
been under fire from hostile artillery and that the artillery
supporting the advance of the 9th and 28th Brigades had been
firing on the Dujaila redoubt and adjacent trenches and not
on the trenches or enemy immediately opposing these two
brigades.
The situation reports from the 9th and 28th Brigades between
10 and 11 a.m. showed the headquarters of both brigades to be
in the same position. To clear up this point General Kemball,
who could see nothing of his infantry situation from his own
position, got into telephonic communication with 28th Brigade
headquarters and asked where the 9th Brigade headquarters
were; he also suggested to Colonel Elsmie's brigade-major
that he (General Kemball) should come up to 28th Brigade
headquarters to see the situation personally. The brigade-
major, however, replied that he had not seen the 9th Brigade
headquarters and did not know where they were ; that he
himself could see nothing and he strongly advised General
Kemball not to come up as the hostile fire was very heavy and
he would be no better off as regards observation of the infantry
fight.
The 36th Brigade, supported at first by the fire of the 8th
Battery, R.F.A., and then by that of the 20th Battery, R.F.A.,
as well—both batteries moving forward about a mile westward
of the position of deployment—and keeping in touch with the
28th Brigade, had made good progress in spite of considerable
hostile rifle and machine gun fire; and by 11.30 a.m. they
occupied the trenches which were their objective and which
the enemy evacuated before their final advance. The greater
part of the right battalion of the brigade (82nd Punjabis) had,
however, been drawn away to their right front by hostile fire
and were closely engaged with the enemy to the left of the
28th Brigade.
The Cavalry Brigade had been covering the flank and rear
of General Kemball’s force and, its horse artillery guns having
forced two squadrons of Turkish cavalry to retire, was now
watching the Hai bridge from a position about two miles to
the south-west of the 36th Brigade.
At 11 a.m. it seemed to General Kemball that the attack
was proceeding satisfactorily and at that hour he sent a report
to Corps headquarters giving the reported positions of his three
infantry brigades and saying that the two leading battalions
of the 9th Brigade were hotly engaged with trenches some
five hundred yards to their front. He concluded his message
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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)
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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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