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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [61r] (126/540)
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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93
THIRD ACTION OF JABAL HAMRIN
In the 35th Brigade Group, the 2/4th Gurkhas and 37th
Dogras received orders soon after 7 a.m. to concentrate on
the opposite bank. But the fords were difficult and they did
?/r 0t a across ti 11 11 -30 a.m. and 1 p.m. respectively.
Meanwhile at 11 a.m., orders were sent for the whole group
to concentrate on the right bank, in readiness to push on as
soon as the 37th Brigade had occupied Tel Baradan. Owing
to the difficulties of fording, however, the crossing was not
completed till dusk and it was also found that the Turks had
flooded the area on the right bank. This rendered our artillery
immobile and the group had to halt for the night to the south
of I el Baradan. The bridge near Qizil Ribat had by this
time been completed, but much ramping remained to be done
and there were several irrigation channels on the right bank
still to be bridged.
West of the Diyala, the 38th Brigade Group, advancing
at 5.30 a.m. from the line it had taken up during the night,
soon surprised a Turkish detachment, taking about 80 prisoners.
The remaining Turks in this area retired at once through the
hills with considerable skill; and the 38th Brigade Group
continued to advance steadily to the north-west. But the
difficult and intricate country rendered progress very slow
and at dusk the infantry bivouacked on a line they had reached
which extended north-east from about a mile north of Suhaniya,
where the remainder of the group rested for the night. In
the 40th Brigade Group the 4th South Wales Borderers,
detached towards Suhaniya, had captured at an early hour
two Turkish guns and about fifty men ; and in the meantime
the 8th Cheshire and 8th Royal Welch Fusiliers with a section
of mountain artillery had advanced north-eastwards towards
the Sakaltutan pass. The remainder of the artillery found
it impossible to follow these two battalions and were forced
to make such a long detour that they did not rejoin the brigade
till nightfall. In the difficult hill country the Cheshire and
Welch Fusiliers became somewhat scattered and it was not
till about 4 p.m. that they got within a mile of the Sakaltutan
pass, which was found to be held by enemy infantry in some
strength with a number of machine guns. As the two mountain
guns, the only artillery present, were considered inadequate
to support an attack, the advance was arrested. The remainder
of the group and General Cayley’s headquarters bivouacked
for the night about a mile north of Suhaniya.
During the day the total casualties in the Illrd Corps only
amounted to forty-two.
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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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