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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [104r] (212/540)
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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KIRKUK
165
The weather cleared on the morning of the 8 th May and
the roads dried up somewhat, enabling a motor supply convoy
to reach Taza Khurmatli. But the troops round Kirkuk,
which was reached that day by the remainder of Cayley’s
Force, had still to remain on half rations and on the 9th received
orders to eat their emergency rations.
Three damaged aeroplanes, a considerable quantity of
ammunition and about 600 wounded and sick Turks were
captured in Kirkuk. The grey stone buildings and arched
gateways of the town presented a somewhat imposing appearance
from outside, and inside there were some fine buildings. But,
as usual, the whole place was filthy in the extreme ; and the
last act of the Turks before leaving was to blow up the fourth
century Christian church, a monument of great historical
interest. In the town, as in the surrounding country, all the
local inhabitants were very short of food and many of them
were dying of starvation. The Turks had taken all the available
grain, including that usually kept for sowing, and the sheep
had been killed in the lambing season. To alleviate these
famine conditions, we followed the procedure adopted in
districts on the Euphrates and elsewhere recently occupied by
us and started soup kitchens and distribution of scraps, sup
plemented by voluntary contributions from the troops’ half
rations.
The fine weather continued and on the 9th May the roads
once more became passable for motor traffic, thus relieving
the supply situation. Armoured cars reconnoitred towards
Altun Kopri and airmen reported enemy camps near that
place, as well as signs of withdrawal from there towards Erbil.
General Egerton established his headquarters at Kirkuk and
issued orders that a mobile column under General Holland-
Pryor should move out next day and drive in the enemy outposts
on the left bank of the Little Zab, to give the impression that
we intended to advance to Altun Kopri.
General Holland-Pryor moved out early on the 10th May
with the 6 th Cavalry Brigade, the 8 th Light Armoured Motor
Battery, a section 26th Mountain Battery carried in sixteen
Ford vans, and two Lewis gun detachments carried in four
Ford vans. The Turks were encountered to the south and
south-east of Altun Kdpri and General Holland-Pryor, operating
against both their flanks, engaged them throughout the after
noon and evening. The enemy, who disclosed about ten guns,
retired slowly, fighting a rear guard action; and other bodies
of his troops were observed retiring north-west from Altun
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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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