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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [224r] (456/660)
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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BRITISH DISPOSITIONS
411
The 36th Infantry Brigade would furnish working parties
for the maintenance of the embankments and road between
Mason’s Mounds and Abu Rumman.
About 5.30 p.m. General Keary heard from the 7th Brigade
that the Turks had cut the river embankment east of their
Chahela trenches and that in consequence water was flowing
past the 7th Brigade advanced posts. About the same time
the 37th Brigade reached the vicinity of the Triangle, where
its commander (General Fowler) heard that the enemy were
holding the trenches he had been told to occupy. In con
sequence he decided to wait till dark before advancing. At
7.30 p.m., however, as he was about to start, he heard that
the enemy were making a strong counter-attack against the
7th and 9th Brigades. This decided him to postpone an
advance pending further information.
To enable the reader to follow more easily the fighting that
occurred during the night of the 17th/18th April, it is advisable
to summarise here the general disposition of the 3rd and 13th
Divisions at dusk on the 17th. Their general line is shown on
Map 20.
The 89th Punjabis held an advanced post on a mound near
the river bank about half a mile in advance of the 7th Brigade
main line, which ran southward along the most western of
the series of canals. The Connaught Rangers were on their
left and the 27th Punjabis on the left of the Connaughts.
The 128th Pioneers formed brigade reserve behind the 27th
Punjabis; and 7 th Brigade headquarters were at the blunt
salient in the original Turkish first line.
The line was carried on to the south by the 9th Brigade
with the 1/lst and l/9th Gurkhas holding the eight hundred
yards or so of front line, the former battalion being on the right.
This brigade had been told originally to hold a line from Z to
the left of the 7th Brigade, but it will be noticed that the. line
actually taken up was somewhat in advance of this and that
their left rested on a pronounced narrow salient, while the
advanced Gurkha company securing the captured Turkish
guns formed a detached post three hundred yards in front of
the centre of the brigade line. The 93rd Burma Infantry
were in support near point Z ; and the Highland Light Infantry
in brigade reserve were close to brigade headquarters north-east
of Twin Pimples.
The 8 th Brigade held trench ZX and a line extending over
two thousand yards southward of it. Being unable to hold
the whole length continuously, they occupied it with a series
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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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