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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [75r] (154/540)
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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DUNSTERFORCE 117
could have been devised ; and it was not long before it effected
its purpose.*
Besides famine relief work. General Dunsterville and his
officers found their time fully occupied in dealings and
negotiations with Baratoff, Bicharakoff and the Bolsheviks,
in establishing friendly relations with the local notables and
inhabitants, and in obtaining information regarding supplies
available in the surrounding district. They encountered
considerable passive opposition and much hostile propaganda ;
but they achieved a gratifying measure of success.
Any hope of being able to raise a force of volunteers from
among Baratoff’s troops was soon dispelled. But Bichara-
koff's detachment still held together and General Dunsterville
concluded an agreement with him, which was of mutual
advantage. Bicharakoff’s detachment and the expenses it
actually incurred were to be paid by usf ; it would not with
draw from Persia till replaced by British troops ; and General
Dunsterville and Bicharakoff agreed to co-operate in close
consultation together, first in Persia and then in the Caucasus,
to further their common aim.
On the 7th March General Marshall informed the Chief of
the Imperial General Staff that the road to Kermanshah
could not be relied upon to permit the movement and continued
maintenance of troops, before May ; but that in the meantime
favourable weather might allow its occasional use. For this.
Colonel Kennion, British Consul at Kermanshah, had made
arrangements with local tribes to keep the road open for light
traffic. General Marshall would send armoured cars to com
plete a battery at Kermanshah ; the 6 th Cavalry Brigade was
being concentrated in the Shahraban—Qasr-i-Shirin area;
General Dunsterville’s second party at Khaniqin had been
ordered to push on and join him ; and Colonel Bridges’ detach
ment of a cavalry regiment and a battery would move forward
from Qasr-i-Shirin as soon as the state of the road permitted.
The situation in Trans-Caucasia was still most unfavourable.
The Turkish advance between the Black Sea and Lake Van
was continuing, the Armenian troops in front of them being
completely demoralised. The provisions of the Brest-Litovsk
treaty regarding the transfer of the districts of Batum, Ardahan
and Kars were indefinitely framed and left an opening to
* General Dunsterville in his book says “ The fame of our relief works
spread down even as far as Gilan, and Kuchik Khan, in his pose as an enligh
tened ruler, felt called on to undertake rehef work on somewhat similar lines
but on a smaller scale.”
| Bicharakoff emphasised the point that he and his men were not
mercenaries.
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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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