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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [112r] (228/540)
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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BAKU PROJECT PREPARATIONS 179
Early in June he sent another party to Bijar with the same
object and also to try to gain touch with the Jelus in the
rmia area, though this was not easy, as they were in an
isolated situation and the local Persian officials and soldiery
were actively hostile to them. Good progress had also been
made recently, under General Marshall’s orders, in raising a
mounted levy corps of Kurds, recruited from the Khaniqin—
Kifn—-Sulaimaniya area, to check enemy hostilities on the
line of the Upper Diyala.
On the 4th June General Marshall telegraphed to the Chief
or the Imperial General Staff that General Dunsterville was at
Kazvm,* where he had Bicharakoff under his orders. As soon
as the Dunsterforce armoured car squadronf and the mobile
motor column arrived to hold the Kazvin—Enzeli line
Bicharakoff would go to Baku and Astrakhan. General
Dunsterville proposed to send the leading armoured car
squadron with Bicharakoff, followed later by such troops as
could be made available ; as this seemed to be the best
opportunity which had so far occurred. Thinking that it was
not too late to save the Baku oil and Krasnovodsk cotton and
obtain entire control of the Caspian, General Dunsterville
desired eventually to proceed to Baku himself. He considered
that no effect would be obtained by sending only one or two
British officers to Baku, which town looked to us for effective
support, and that there was no need to destroy the oil fields.
General Marshall recommended that General Dunsterville
should be given a free hand in regard to sending British troops
to Baku on the condition that he retained control over them.
Replying on the 6 th, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff
said that H.M. Government did not object to General Dunster
ville making jpreparations to send an armed force to Baku,
but that, until the mobile motor column had arrived and
consohdated the position on the Kazvin—Enzeli road, they
did not consider that General Dunsterville, any British troops,
or Bicharakoff and his Russians, should go to Baku. They con
sidered that even then the movement on Baku should not take
place without further reference to London and definite instruc-
tions from th ere. It was thought that the situation in Trans-
* General Dunsterville had just transferred his headquarters there.
T ormed in England in January 1918, mainly of personnel from Commander
J^cher-Lampson s armoured car unit which had returned from Russia at the
e ° , . ’ ^ brigade was to consist of five squadrons (eight armoured
cam each) a motor transport column, a mobile medical unit and a wireless
secUon, all under command of Colonel J. D. Crawford (Indian army). The
advanced party reached Baghdad on the 6th Mav ; and at the beginning of
June one squadron was on its way to Kazvin.
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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
- Extent and format
- 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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