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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [94v] (193/540)
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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150 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
in Ford vans to work round the enemy’s right. As soon as the
Hussars’ advance had compelled the enemy to disclose his
position, the cavalry was to take ground to its left and attack
the enemy on his right rear.
It was found impossible, however, to ascertain the enemy’s
dispositions by reconnaissance. The deep i avmc and old
water courses cleverly converted into trenches, which composed
a position made over a year previously by German engineers,
were so overgrown with high grass that they were invisible
from any distance ; and our airmen were unable to see if
they were guarded by wire, an almost fatal obstacle to amounted
attack. Moreover, immediately to the south-west of the position
a large swamp, in which cavalry horses sunk nearly up to their
hocks, prevented the outflanking advance of the armoured
cars and the Lewis gun detachment.
According to reports from our airmen the trenches appeared
to be unoccupied. But this proved to be incorrect, as a
demonstration by the 13th Hussars and 21st Cavalry was
abruptly checked by rifle fire, which disclosed the enemy’s
position at about 11.30 a.m. General Holland-Pryor then
decided to work round to the Turkish right rear and attack
from. that direction. Meanwhile, however, enemy troops
showed signs of moving forward from Tuz Rhurmatli, and a
squadron 13th Hussars was detached to hold them off. The
remainder of the 13th Hussars and the 21st Cavalry were
withdrawn from the front and pushed round with the 22 nd
Cavalry to the north-westward, skirting the marsh ; and the
guns, machine gun squadron and Lewis gun detachment took
up positions to the south and south-south-west of Kulawand.
By about 12.30 p.m. the cavalry regiments were in a concave
line facing roughly north-east, the 22nd Cavalry on the right
facing Kulawand village, the 21st Cavalry in the centre and
the 13th Hussars on the left; and the attack started. Under
the effective cover of a creeping barrage put down by our
artillery and of our machine gun fire and assisted by the bombs
and fire from our aeroplanes flying low', the cavalry moved
forward at a walk and trot over about two miles of very heavy
country. They finally broke into a gallop when five hundred
yards from the enemy.
Many of the Turkish infantry left their trenches to meet this
attack and ran out to hold a dry watercourse, whence they
opened a rapid but badly directed fire and where they were
ridden over by our cavalry, who did considerable execution
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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)
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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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