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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [22r] (48/540)
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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BRITISH POLICY
19
service till January 1918 and it was still too early to say where
they could be most suitably employed. For the time being.
General Maude seemed to have sufficient troops and it was
undesirable to send him more than he required to secure his
hold on the Baghdad vilayet, which was still the object of His
Majesty’s Government. These new troops might possibly be
required in Egypt, but that depended on what happened in
Palestine, where General Allenby had recently assumed
command and where the policy to be adopted had not yet been
settled. It was finally decided that these Indian troops should
for the time being be regarded as a reserve for the East ready to
relieve or reinforce other troops. Owing to an improved flow
of recruits,* resulting from recently organised and energetic
arrangements the Government of India, were able to suggest
that another twenty-one battalions should be raised to provide
a reserve for unforeseen future demands; and owing to the
improvement in the frontier situation and the reorganisation
of the British volunteer corps in India,f the Commander-in-
Chief was able to inform the Chief of the Imperial General Staff
that the seven British Territorial battalions temporarily
detained in India could be despatched to Egypt in August and
September.
On the 21st July Sir William Robertson informed General
Maude that the war policy of His Majesty’s Government
in Mesopotamia remained unaltered, but that the War
Cabinet was considering a proposal to reinforce General
Allenby for an offensive through Southern Palestine commencing
about October, which should materially, though indirectly,
assist General Maude. The increase of General Allenby’s force
depended on the withdrawal of troops from Salonika as well
as on shipping ; and the former question was to be discussed
at an Allied conference to be held the next week. At this
conference, however, nothing was settled and the question was
postponed for consideration at another conference to be held
a few days later. In view of the general situation the Allied
military authorities agreed that it was necessary to reduce
all commitments in secondary theatres of operations to a
minimum and to strengthen the Western Front as much as
possible. To carry out their part of this agreement the British
* In spite of recruiting difficulties India had by this time raised about
500,000 men since the outbreak of war and had made arrangements to recruit
about 400,000 annually until the war was over ; and this in a country where
compulsion was impossible and where the annual quota of recruits before the
war was about 15,000.
| The Indian Defence Force was created.
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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
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- 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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