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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [189v] (387/660)
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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344 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
had all disappeared and that he could observe no movement
enemy troops ; Turkish artillery had fired about ten shells °!
long range from the vicinity of Imam al Mansur about 7 anT
but had since shown no signs of activity ; parties of maraudin'
Arabs were searching the battlefield * and General Kemball
beheved that the Turks had all retired. He suggested that
aerial reconnaissance should be carried out, and he asked
whether in the meantime he should continue his movements in
retirement. His three brigades were in position near the
southern corner of the depression, in which all his wounded had
been collected and were being placed in carts; and he was
gradually sending his transport off and would carry on the
retirement if he received no further orders. He added that the
firing by his guns and infantry was directed entirely against Arab
marauders at long range and was putting them to flight; and he
was prepared to hold on to his position all day without support
At 8.20 a.m. a hostile aeroplane passed overhead and at
8.55, when the 36th Brigade had just commenced to retire
north-eastward, General Kemball received instructions that
the 9th and 28th Brigades were for the present to remain
where they were, as an aerial reconnaissance was in progress
and further orders would be issued on receipt of its report.
About 6.15 a.m. the Corps artillery opened fire on the Sinn
Abtar and Dujaila redoubts, and w T ere replied to by enemy
guns in the vicinity of the former, and between 8.30 and 9 a.m.
General Aylmer received the reports of aeroplane reconnais
sances carried out between 7.45 and 8.30. No troops could be
seen at the Bait Isa-Chahela positions. Boats were in use at
the Maqasis ferry, but no formed bodies of troops had been seen
in the vicinity. A few men were moving south-eastward along
the Maqasis canal, westward of which was a camp of fifty tents
and a body of 1,500 troops halted. Further to the west, in
the Dujaila depression, was a camp of twelve tents from which
small parties were moving eastward. Carts and transport
were moving in both directions between the Es Sinn position
and the Hai, where the camps near the bridge were still standing
and where 600 men were seen along the banks south-eastward
of the bridge. Near an entrenchment some four miles south
west of the Dujaila redoubt were six halted groups of troops
with transport; and guns were in position south of the Sinn,
Abtar redoubt facing south-east down the Dujaila depression,
with two new gun pits close up.
* General Kemball took this to imply the absence of Turkish troops from
the battlefield.
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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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