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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [124v] (253/540)
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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198 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
On the same day the General Officer Commanding in Meso
potamia informed the War Office that he had heard from Mr.
McDonell* at Baku that, at a meeting of all political parties
there, the majority had voted in favour of asking for British
assistance, though the local Bolshevik Government had voted
against it’; and that probably the fleet would shortly visit
Enzeli and ask for British assistance, which Mr. McDonell
hoped would be granted by embarking troops to land at Alyat.
Bicharakoff’s agents at Baku asked for three battalions and
as many armoured cars and aeroplanes as possible.
In view of this, General Fanshawe said that he had decided,
after consulting General Dunsterville, to allow him to send one
battalion to Enzeli for despatch to Baku, to be followed as soon
as possible by a field battery and by any armoured cars that
were mobile. Arrangements would also be made to send to
Enzeli at least one battalion of the brigade then arriving at
Hamadan, in case the despatch of further reinforcements was
required to meet the situation at Baku.
General Fanshawe also explained that the lack of information
complained of by the War Office was due to the fact that
General Dunsterville had been dependent on the Russian
wireless, which was in Bolshevik hands ; and that Genera!
Dunsterville had not deemed it advisable to precipitate matters
and incur their hostility by seizing it. It would probably he
possible to do so shortly, and in the meantine sufficient wagon
sets of wireless were being sent to render General Dunstervi
independent.!
On the 20th July the War Office replied that, though theii
information regarding Baku and the Caucasus was too ffl(|
mentary for them to form a clear idea of the situation, thcv
concurred in General Fanshawe’s action in sending one or two
* Mr A E R McDonell was British Vice-Consul at Baku and had bes
employed since December 1917 on special service at Tiflis, which he k
recently had to leave owing to the enemy’s arrival there.
t At the same time General Fanshawe asked for troops to be sent to Meso
potamia, for operations there in the autumn and winter to replace thoseei
ployed with Dunsterforce. Two days later the War Office replied
did not anticipate that the situation, either north of Baghdad or in
justified any addition to the force and they required all the units®.
Mesopotamia could spare to relieve British units for the Western Front Ig
suggested, however, the despatch to Mesopotamia of a mountain artj^
brigade and a company of Sappers and Miners from India, while the)
selves might be able to send the equivalent of two Australian mo^
brigades. At this time, it may be noted, correspondence wastakmg^^
regarding the utilisation of half a million men, which it was hoped to raise
India within the next twelve months, to release more British troopsfo
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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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