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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [227v] (463/660)
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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418 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
At 11.45 General Keary ordered the 37th Brigade to send
a battalion to reheve a battalion of the 38th Brigade being
sent to Twin Pimples and to move the balance of the 37th
Brigade and the half battahon Manchesters to close up to the
left of the 8 th Brigade. Half an hour later the Manchester
bombers on the right of the 8 th Brigade gained a local success
against the Turks, capturing a machine gun, while the South
Lancashire were reported to be bombing their way forward
from X towards Z; and soon afterwards General Keary
heard from 9th Brigade headquarters that General Egerton
was holding his headquarters and the trench for three hundred
yards southward of it towards Z, that there were no enemy
for a further three hundred yards southward and that General
Egerton was collecting troops with a view to an advance in
this direction. At 12.50 a.m. on the 18th a report from the
37th Brigade showed that they had closed on the Triangle
and had moved the Manchesters and 36th Sikhs northward to
join up with the left of the 8 th Brigade, while the 2nd Gurkhas
were facing south on the 37th Brigade left and the Somerset
had gone to join the 38th Brigade.
The 6 th East Lancashire and 9th Worcestershire reached
General Egerton’s headquarters between 2.30 and 3 a.m.,
their progress having been slow owing to the floods, the
darkness and the general uncertainty regarding the situation.
The East Lancashire were ordered to work down the trench
towards Z and the Worcestershire held a trench to the west
of 7th Brigade headquarters. By this time telephonic com
munication had been restored between 7th and 9th Brigade
headquarters; the Connaughts and 89th had begun their
withdrawal, which they completed without much difficulty by
4 a.m., by which time the East Lancashire had reached within
two hundred yards of Z; and at 4.30 a.m. General Egerton
moved his headquarters to Twin Pimples for greater facility
of communication with 9th Brigade and 3rd Division
headquarters.
The 4th South Wales Borderers and 5th Wiltshire (40th
Brigade) arrived at the 8 th Brigade position about 2 a.m.
and were sent to support the 59th Rifles. At 3 a.m. the
Turks made their fourth distinct attack on the 8 th Bnga e
line, again directed mainly against the part of the line held y
the 59th. Half an hour later the 47th Sikhs reported arge
enemy bodies massing to their front, and at 4 a.m. the ur s
launched their fifth attack against the 8 th Brigade, continuing
to push in men with great vigour until it began to ge g
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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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