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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [15r] (34/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (266 folios). It was created in 1927. 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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PROBABLE TURKISH PLANS 5
Balad, with a bridgehead on the left bank of the Tigris near its
junction with the Adhaim, so as to be in a position to strike
rapidly towards Delli Abbas, Band-i-Adhaim or Samarra as
occasion demanded.
These preliminary dispositions seemed to General Maude
to be the most suitable to deal promptly and effectively with
any reasonable numbers brought against him.
In future operations, mobile bridging trains and transport
w r ould form important factors. India had been asked to supply
suitable vehicles for a second mobile bridging train; the
existing land transport was being reorganised, and the Baghdad
-Samarra railway line developed.* General Maude trusted
that the despatch of the remainder of the mechanical transport
from England, approved in November 1916, might be expedited,
and he asked for some motor lorries to facilitate the rapid
movement of infantry. He did not like to ask for extra troops,
but if India could spare him two infantry brigades and four
artillery batteries, he could free a cavalry and five infantry
divisions entirely for action on the Diyala and Tigris fronts.f
In the middle of April General Maude had already asked for
another air squadron. During the operations in April his one
squadron had proved insufficient and none of its aeroplanes
were such effective fighting machines as some of those possessed
by the enemy. The number of these enemy machines, more
over, was reliably reported as about to be increased.
On the 24th May, the Director of Military Intelligence at the
War Office telegraphed to General Maude that a Turkish
offensive against Egypt was not expected during the summer ;
that probably the Turks would reinforce their Palestine army ;
while they might be expected to transfer troops from their
Caucasus front to Mesopotamia or Palestine in case of need, as
they considered a Russian offensive there would be impossible
for some months to come. On the 26th the Director of Military
Intelligence sent another telegram, saying it was reported
that in April Mackensen attended a conference at Constantinople
at which a Turkish offensive in Mesopotamia via the Diyala line
was decided on, and that 10,000 men from the 1st, 11th and
19th Divisions had been sent to Mosul. Vehib
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was to
command in Mesopotamia and was to be relieved in the Caucasus
b y Mustapha Kemal. On the 29th, the Chief of the Imperial
* A railway line to Baquba was also being constructed.
| In a letter to General Whigham, General Maude said that he hated asking
for reinforcements, as he realised that Mesopotamia was not a decisive front;
but he felt that he ought to represent his views, when the Chief of the Imperial
Staff could decide. He was quite prepared for a refusal.
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The volume is the fourth 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 V. The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917-1918 - North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918', and consists of the following ten chapters:
- May, June and July 1917
- August and September 1917: The Capture of Ramadi
- October to December 1917 - Occupation of the Jabal Hamrin, Action of Tikrit and Death of General Maude
- January to March 1918: Dunsterville's Mission and the Action of Khan Baghdadi
- April and May 1918: Operations in Kurdistan and Arrangements to Counter the Turco-German Threat beyond our Northern Flank
- British Plans to Stop the Enemy's Advance into Persia and to Obtain Control of the Caspian
- The Fall of Baku
- British Advance up the Tigris: Actions of Fat-Ha Gorge and on the Little Zab
- The Battle of Sharqat and the Armistice
- Conclusion
The volume also includes fourteen maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Mesopotamia
- Map 34 - Operations near Ramadi: July and September 1917
- Map 35 - Operations in the Jabal Hamrin: October and December 1917
- Map 36 - Actions at Daur and Tikrit: 2nd and 5th November 1917
- Map 37 - Operations on the Euphrates line: March 1918
- Map 38 - Action of Khan Baghdadi: 26th March 1918
- Map 39 - Operations in the Kifri-Kirkuk area: April and May 1918
- Map 40 - The Cavalry affair of the 27th April 1918, and the action of Tuz Khurmatli, 29th April 1918
- Map 41 - Operations of "Dunsterforce", 1918
- Map 42 - Operations at Baku, August-September 1918
- Map 43 - Operations on the Tigris: 18th-30th October 1918
- Map 44 - Action by 7th Cavalry Brigade near Hadraniya: 29th October 1918
- Map 45 - Battle of Sharqat, 29th October 1918
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (266 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a preface (folios 5-6), a chronological summary of the campaign in Mesopotamia (folios 7-8), a list of contents (folios 8-11), a list of maps and illustrations (folios 11-12), appendices (folios 197-232), an index (folios 233-254), and twelve maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 256-267).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 268; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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