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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [86r] (176/540)
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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PURSUIT
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The Light Armoured Motor Brigade passed through Ana
without opposition at 8.30 a.m., on the 28th March. Hearing
of this a quarter of an hour later, General Cassels motored
straight there leaving orders for the Cavalry Brigade and
Hogg’s Group to follow.* By questioning the chief inhabitants,
General Cassels gathered that Colonel Tennant and Major
Hobart had left Ana for Aleppo on camels on the morning
of the 27th, that some Germans and the wireless installation
had left on the evening of the 27th, and that the very few
Turks and Tartar cavalryf in the town had scattered in all
directions on hearing of our approach that morning. General
Cassels then gave orders for the despatch of some armoured
cars along the Aleppo road with the object of rescuing Colonel
Tennant and Major Hobart and of capturing the wireless, the
Germans and the influential Arabs accompanying them.
The 8 th Light Armoured Motor Battery, which was leading,
commanded by Captain Tod, was detailed for this operation.
It had already, about five miles above Ana, captured the
Turkish commandant of Ana and about twenty other officers^ ;
and it now proceeded to advance again, with orders to push on,
if necessary and possible, for one hundred miles to carry out
its task. After going some distance, the battery encountered
a party of about 150 Turks, whom it captured after some
slight resistance; and from one of the captured officers
Captain Tod gathered that Colonel Tennant and Major Hobart
had been hurried forward from there on camels about two
hours previously. Captain Tod at once pushed on again,
succeeded in overtaking the two British officers and, by his
skilful handling of his cars, in rescuing them, at a point about
thirty-two miles west of Ana.§ The battery also captured
the Ana wireless installation ; and, after proceeding about
fifty miles beyond Ana, returned to that town.
At Ana, as at Haditha, large quantities of war material and
large numbers of shakturs were found ; but as only a small
part of these stores could be evacuated in the available
transport, the greater part was ordered to be destroyed.
During the 28th March the Reserve Group reached Haditha.
On the 29th the 13th Light Armoured Motor Battery went * * * §
* They reached Ana between 10 and 11 a.m.
f Mainly deserters from the Russian army.
} In the war diary of the battery this commandant is said, evidently by
mistake, to have been the commander of the 50th Division, who had really
already surrendered at Haditha the previous afternoon.
§ Details of this stirring rescue are given by Colonel Tennant in his book
*' In the Clouds above Baghdad." For his action Captain Tod was awarded
an immediate D.S.O.
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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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