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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [83v] (171/540)
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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132 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
to move at dawn, either towards Haditha or Khan Baghdadi
according to circumstances or as General Brooking might
direct.
The excellent work during the 26th March of the British Air
Force had contributed greatly to the success gained. The
assistance given to General Cassels, both by guiding the
direction of his force and by furnishing him with constant
information of enemy movements and of our infantry operations
had been invaluable. In addition to co-operating with the
artillery of the main attack, its reconnaissance had afforded
much useful information ; and it had continuously harassed
the enemy with bombs and machine gun fire. During the
morning it located Turkish guns firing from barges by the
left bank of the Euphrates and five aeroplanes set out to bomb
them in the afternoon. The barges, however, were already
being towed upstream and although no direct hits were obtained
one of them ran into the bank and was sunk.
The anticipated Turkish attempt to break through General
Cassels’ force materialised just before midnight 26th/27th,
the enemy’s main effort being directed against the right centre
of the British line, i.e., where it was strongest. After about
three quarters of an hour’s sharp fighting the enemy, beaten
back, displayed tokens of surrender* ; and two squadrons
23rd Cavalry were sent forward on foot to collect the prisoners,
who totalled over 1,000 with several machine guns.
At 5.45 a.m.f on the 27th March, Major Sir T. Thompson
(commanding the Light Armoured Motor Brigade), under orders
from General Cassels, moved eastward with eleven carsj of the
13th and 14th Batteries and, at the Aleppo road crossing of
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hauran, found a mass of over 2,000 Turkish troops
displaying white flags. These were taken prisoner and then,
in accordance with orders, six cars of the 13th Battery were
sent off along the road towards Haditha to capture any enemy
troops that might have slipped through. In the meantime,
leaving small parties to guard his prisoners, General Cassels
directed the remainder of his brigade to move to the Aleppo
road and then along it to concentrate at the Alus bend, before
proceeding in pursuit to Ana, which had been indicated by
General Brooking as the next operation for the cavalry to
carry out.
* There was moonlight,
f Sunrise was about 6 a.m.
+ Two armoured cars had been detached to escort the second line transport,
which had not yet reached General Cassels’ force.
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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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