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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [110v] (225/540)
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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CHAPTER XLII.
BRITISH PLANS TO STOP THE ENEMY’S ADVANCE INTO Persia
AND TO OBTAIN CONTROL OF THE CASPIAN. A
(MAP 41.)
A T the beginning of June 1918 the fighting strength of the
Turkish Sixth Army, whose headquarters were at
Mosul, was estimated at about 1,800 sabres, 17,000 rifles 130
guns and 25 aeroplanes. Its distribution was believed to be
as follows :—
Euphrates Front (about and south of Ana) : Cavalry
Brigade and 24th Infantry Regiment=750 sabres, 1 500
rifles and 9 guns.
Tigris Front (at and above Fat-ha) : 14th and 51st Divisions
with five aeroplanes—100 sabres, 7,100 rifles and 63 guns
Altun Kopri—Kirkuk area : 2 nd and part of 6 th Divisions
with eight aeroplanes-^50 sabres, 2,950 rifles and 22 guns.
Sulaimaniya Group : Frontier formations=50 sabres 1 100
rifles and 4 guns.
Ruwandiz—Urmia area : Part of 6 th Division and frontier
formations =150 sabres, 2,400 rifles and 12 guns.
Mosul and Lines of Communication : 300 sabres, 1,950
rifles, 24 guns and aeroplanes.
Its men were said to be somewhat demoralised and it was
suffering from great supply and transport difficulties.
In the first week of June it was reported that two Turkish
battalions and a battery had left Kirkuk for Sulaimaniya and
that other units would follow them there and to the Urmia
front. It seemed evident that the Turks did not intend
to undertake an offensive in Mesopotamia themselves, and
that, regarding one by us as unlikely for the time being, they
meant to utilise the opportunity to push on with their plans
in the Caucasus and in Persia. The Germans at this period
were hoping for further success in France, while our advance
in Palestine had not only ceased but British troops had been
withdrawn from there to France.*
In the Caucasus the peace negotiations between the Turks
and the Trans-Caucasian Federation were reported to have
been broken off, in spite of the protests of the latter, and it
If the enemy was not already aware of this, he must have learnt it from
an indiscreet question in the British House of Commons.
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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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