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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [19r] (42/540)
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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YILDERIM
13
Euphrates valley and for refitting and reorganising the Turkish
Sixth Army. Considerable sums of money were also given for
the purchase of local supplies, as well as to gain the active
co-operation against the British of the Arab tribes in the
Euphrates, Tigris and Diyala valleys.
The Germans found, however, that they had not only the
natural physical difficulties of the country to overcome. They
and the Turks did not work well together ; and the friction
between the two races increased considerably as the Germans
began to take executive control of the great undertaking for
which they had now assumed direct responsibility. There
seem to have been faults on both sides. The Germans com
plained of Turkish obstruction, apathy and inefficiency, while
the Turks resented German interference which they misunder
stood and distrusted and they also disliked German methods
which they regarded as unnecessarily arbitrary and arrogant.
At the beginning of June, Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
moved Turkish
General Headquarters to Aleppo and on the 24th of that month
he held a conference there, attended by Izzet, Djemal, Mustapha
Kemal and Halil Pashas, commanding the Caucasus, Fourth,
Second and Sixth Armies respectively. Enver explained to the
commanders the role of the “ Yilderim ” Group of Armies and
said that the Seventh Army would march down the Euphrates,
concentrate about Hit and then move so as to threaten the
rear of the British forces round Baghdad. Djemal
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, it is
said, did not approve and urged the danger on the Palestine
front, but without effect.
It was not long before reports of the Turco-German intentions
began to reach the British. On the 6th June the War Office
telegraphed to General Maude that they had reliable information
that Falkenhayn and staff had left Constantinople on the 13th
May for Palestine and Mesopotamia* ; that it was uncertain on
which of these fronts the enemy intended an offensive, though
it would probably be in Palestine, and that the Turks were
going to move troops from their Caucasus front to Mesopotamia.
Later in the month the War Office sent reports indicating that
Falkenhayn had arrived at Jerablus (on his way to Mosul) on the
21st May, that he had urged on Djemal
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
the advisability of
giving precedence to an offensive in Mesopotamia over one in
Palestine and that Turkish General Headquarters had been
established at Aleppo at the beginning of June. Throughout
July General Maude received a series of reports from the War
Office and other sources giving further information on the subject.
These referred, but only in general terms, to the enemy conference
* General Maude received other reports that it was Mackensen who was
visiting Mesopotamia.
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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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