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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [111v] (227/540)
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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178 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
and men were on leave; and, apart from climatic considerations
his orders to secure the Khaniqin—Hamadan—Enzeli road
and to gain control of the Caspian required the employment ot
much of his transport. In the meantime, in view of possible
eventualities in the autumn, he had started work on the
extension northwards of the Samarra railway.
The wide dispersion of General Marshall's force at this period
is noteworthy. The advanced detachments of the IUrd
Corps on his right extended from Kazvin* to Kifri and Tuz
Khurmatli; his 1st Corps was about Samarra on the Tigris;
and the 15th Division, with headquarters at Ramadi on the
Euphrates, had detachments at Hit and Sahiliya.
The supply situation had improved owing to the completion,
at the end of May, of the Baghdad—Hilla railway, which
opened up a rich supply area and tended to relieve congestion
on the line of communications. It was also estimated that,
owing to the excellent harvests in the Hamadan area and to the
amount of rice obtainable in the Enzeli district, sufficient sup
plies could be purchased in North-West Persia to feed 5,000
British troops.
On the 1st June General Marshall informed General Dunster-
ville that the mobile motor column, forming for the purpose
of securing the Hamadan—Enzeli road, would probably be
concentrated at Hamadan by the middle of the month. This
column, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel C. L.
Matthew's (l/4th Hampshire), w'ould consist of the l/4th
Hampshire, less tw r o companies, (i.e., 400 rifles), two companies
l/2nd Gurkhas, (i.e., 600 rifles), one section 21st Mountain
Battery and a detachment 20th Combined Field Ambulance.
All the personnel of the column, with their equipment, am
munition, baggage and rations, were to be carried in five
hundred Ford vans.
General Dunsterville was still engaged in raising levies at
Hamadan, and a party of his British officers and non
commissioned officers at Zenjan were taking steps to raise
levies or to subsidise the local tribes between there and Tabriz.
* The British troops on the road from Khaniqin to Kazvin were distributed
as follows. From Khaniqin to Kermanshah (inclusive) the troops, under the
Illrd Corps, were the 36th Infantry Brigade (less one company, 1/4th Hamp
shire), 14th Hussars (less two squadrons), 12th Company Sappers and Miners,
one company 128th Pioneers and one section each of the 8th Field, 21st and
26th Mountain, and 6th Light Armoured Motor Batteries. Eastward of
Kermanshah the area was under General Dunsterville and here there were
at Hamadan one company l/4th Hampshire and two armoured cars of the
6th Light Armoured Motor Battery and at Kazvin four armoured cars of the
same battery' and one squadron 14th Hussars.
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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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