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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [221v] (451/660)
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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406 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
bank near the bridge and just below it were the gunboats
Mantis, Mayfly, Saw fly and Stonefly, as well as Flycatcher
Between the bridge and Abu Rumman were the 36th Infantry
Brigade, 13th Sapper Company, 72nd and 88 th Engineer
Companies and the technical troops of the 3rd Division
( 20 th and 21 st Sapper Companies and 34th Pioneers), all
being employed on preventive measures against the floods
and on road making, especially on the causeway between
Mason's Mounds and Abu Rumman ; this was still so in
complete that guns, supphes and stores between these two
places had to proceed by river after dark. One of the field
batteries of the 4th Brigade was also in this vicinity. The
35th Infantry Brigade and a battery of the 13th Brigade,
R.F.A., were at Twin Canals, with the Cavalry Brigade between
them and the Tigris. At the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
camp were the 16th Cavalry
(less one troop), l/3rd Sussex Battery, a 12-pounder gun,
Nos. 1 and 2 Bridging Trains, a company 12th Pioneers and the
headquarters of the 41st Infantry Brigade with the 45th Sikhs,
2/4th Gurkhas and l/ 8 th Gurkhas ; * and the gunboat Grayfiy
was also stationed here. At Shaikh Saad were a troop 16th
Cavalry, a section C/ 66 th Battery, R.F.A., a 15-pounder post
gun, the l/4th Devonshire of the 41st Brigade, 64th Pioneers,
(37th Brigade), 3rd Brahmans (less one company), and a
company 67th Punjabis.
During the night 15th/16th April the remainder of General
Keary’s 62 field and mountain guns f moved forward to give
close artillery support in the coming attack; and at dawn
on the 16th the 47th Sikhs skilfully effected the capture of
the last Turkish advanced post, which guarded the canal
by which they had flooded a great part of the area. There now
remained no outlying Turkish detachments between the
British line and the main Bait Isa position six hundred to nine
hundred yards distant. This position ran south-south-east
from the Tigris for about half a mile and then forming a blunt
salient bent backward in a south-westerly direction and joined
the Chahela trenches.
The operations from the 12th to the 15th April had been
a considerable strain on the men of the 3rd Division. Though
their total casualties, including th ose on the 12 th already
* The 41st Brigade (General Cadell) had been coming up gradually from
The 44th Battery, R.F.A. (13th Brigade) moved up to the front from
Twin Canals, where its place was taken by the 7th Battery, K.r.A. I
Brigade). The eight 60-pounders and the 6-inch howitzer remamed in pos
near Mason’s Mounds.
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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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