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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [37r] (78/540)
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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RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
49
The main work of the Royal Flying Corps during August
and the first three weeks of September was photography,
amongst others detailed pictures being taken of the enemy’s
positions at Ramadi, Daur (on the Tigris about twenty miles
north of Samarra), Band-i-Adhaim, Delli Abbas and the Jabal
Hamrin. Enemy aircraft were seen occasionally over our
lines, but there were few actual encounters.
During September information was received which seemed
to show that under German pressure the Turks might begin
to use gas against us. Hitherto both sides in Mesopotamia
had refrained from its use and although General Maude had
a reserve of gas shells, he only kept them for use in retaliation
if this became necessary.
Railway progress was good. On the 28th September General
Maude reported to the War Office that it was anticipated that
the section of the Basra—Qurna railway from the new port at
Nahr Umar to Qurna would be open by the 20th October and
that the section from Basra to Nahr Umar by the middle
of November, though this depended mainly on the floating
bridge at Kurmat Ali, regarding which there was some
difficulty. An extension of the Baquba line to Shahraban
was in progress* and a line on the metre gauge to Baquba
following a different alignment had been commenced, while
orders had been issued to push on with the standard gauge
railway from Baghdad to Falluja.
The heat wave which had set in in the first week of July
lasted till the end of the month, after which the normal high
temperatures prevailed, the nights getting gradually cooler
as the autumn approached. Thanks to the better conditions
under which the force was serving and the great improvement
which had taken place in all the medical arrangements, the
cases of sickness among officers and men averaged generally
less than half what they had been in 1916.
In the second week in September, General Maude decided
that the time had come to occupy Ramadi. The operation
was entrusted to General Brooking, commanding the 15th
Division, and General Maude had a personal interview with
him on the 13th September.
Ihe troops to be placed at General Brooking’s disposal
consisted of the 50th Brigade Group, already in the Falluja
(19465)
* It was completed on 15th October.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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