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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [70r] (144/540)
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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POLICY IN PERSIA 109
On the 2nd February General Marshall informed the Chief
of the Imperial General Staff that Baratoff might succeed in
holding together a certain number of his men, but that they
would be undisciplined and useless ; and that Bicharakoff,
whose presence alone had prevented the Russian withdrawal
from Kermanshah from degenerating into a rout, was also likely
before long to have trouble with his own men. All Persian
parties were welcoming the departure of the Russians and
General Marshall considered that, for the time being at any
rate, it was better to keep British troops out of Kermanshah,
especially as, if kept ready at Qasr-i-Shirin, they could forestall
any Turkish movement on Kermanshah. Bicharakoff's own
idea was to rally the best officers and men he could find, take
them to the Caucasus and there raise a new force ; and General
Marshall proposed that he should ask Bicharakoff to come to
Baghdad, where he should tell him that we had no objection
to his withdrawal from Persia and that we welcomed his
proposal to raise troops in the Caucasus.
The Chief of the Imperial General Staff replied on the
6 th February saying that H.M. Government had not yet
decided on their policy in Persia. It was apparent that the
Russians would not be able to close the Persian frontier or to
keep open communications with the Caucasus, and it would
be necessary for us to consider to what extent we could and
should undertake both tasks. To enable him to advise the War
Cabinet, Sir William Robertson asked for an estimate of the
force required on the Persian frontier to take the place of the
Russians and also whether General Marshall could maintain
such a force. In conclusion, the Chief of the Imperial General
Staff thought that Bicharakoff should be encouraged to remain
in Persia as long as there was any hope of retaining any
Russian force there.
General Marshall telegraphed on the 9th that the latest
reports from Bicharakoff showed little possibility of retaining
a Russian force in Persia. To send a sufficient British force
there, say a cavalry brigade and an infantry division, would
require many troops to hold the lines of communication and
practically all the transport in Mesopotamia to maintain it.
General Marshall considered that a steady advance on Mosul
would be more likely to achieve the object in view than
locking up troops in Persia.* Such an advance, he said,
would entail pushing forward the railway from Samarra.
. * In January our Military Agent in the Caucasus had also telegraphed to the
War Office that Assyrian, Armenian and Georgian delegates in Trans-Caucasia
had all volunteered the opinion that a move by us towards Mosul would have
most beneficial results in Southern Caucasia and Persia.
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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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