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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [63v] (131/540)
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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HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
During the day the casualties in General Cavlev’s ^
totalled 157, of which the 37th Dogras lost 65 y the 9/12
Gurkhas 46 and the 5th Wiltshire 29. We took about
pnsoners, but little in the way of supplies or war material
In the meantime, the Turkish force facing the Caval
Division to the westward of Umr Maidan had shown 7
signs of retiring and our cavalry had been unable to find am
other passage through the hills. In the evening of the
General Marshall ordered both the Cavalry Division and +2
Illrd Corps to withdraw next day, the latter to an advan d
hne extending from Khaniqin through Qizil Ribat to the
Sakaltutan pass. This withdrawal was effected withont
special incident. nuout
Between the 3rd and the 6 th December our total casualtipc
amounted to 29 killed and 190 wounded and th 0 i '
Bicharakoff s Russians, who had done good work on the two
days they had been engaged, to 9. We buried 87 dead Turks
and captured 255 prisoners, 2 guns, a machine gun and other
war material. The 1 urkish wounded were estimated at over
two hundred. Although the loss we inflicted on the enemy was
n 0 L aS fl g 2 at aS -*f d ^ een ho P ed for > we had strengthened our
nght flank considerably. It was felt that in future the Turks
would expenence great difficulty in conducting offensive
operations against this flank and also in carrying out S
plans for a penetration by small forces into Persia.
On the 1 st December the Commander-in-Chief in India
telegraphed to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff that
tn M 6 arr ^ n ^ eme ^ t s to despatch units of the 18th Division
to Mesopotamia had been completed, he proposed to start
bv e H r s m MaW ' V 9th DiviSi0n f0r em P lo ynSnt as desired
General S ^ over " m e nt - The Chief of the Imperial
Ma cou d Xe f 6 3rd that the T ues tion of how best
maia could give further assistance had already been under
consideration and he hoped to send a full reply in a few days
follows ""russ^ he Sent his Views 0n the generaI situation as
had ereatlvTnlreLS aCe n / ov " men t “d the Italian defeats
of effort more nee 6 ° Ur an d rendered concentration
Britain and Frane ever ’ n Europe, where Great
sucSses .n F m " ^ eaCh S ! nt Six ^visions to Italy. Our
concentration ^® sop °t am ^ a and Palestine had rendered this
Genera ^ [? Slble u and the Chief of ‘he Imperial
au 2 thou ght we had over-rated Turkish nnwer
doubteddthivhad 5565 ‘ he Turc °-Genuan plans, he
bted if they had ever been as formidable as reports indicated;
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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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