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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [136r] (276/540)
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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TURKS ADVANCE FROM TABRIZ
219
as the Armenian troops were unreliable and until they were
organised only a handful of British troops stood between Baku
and destruction. Everything pointed to an early Turkish
offensive and it was imperative that British reinforcements
should be despatched immediately.
In repeating this telegram to the War Office on the 22nd,
General Cobbe gave the 39th Infantry Brigade distribution on
that day. The 7th North Staffordshire were in Baku ; of the
9th Royal Warwickshire about one hundred were in Baku and
the remainder had either embarked from Enzeli or were on
their way there from Kazvin ; a company of the 9th Worcester
shire was at Kazvin and two companies on their way there from
Hamadan, where the fourth company was guarding the Jelu
refugees ;* and three companies of the 7th Gloucestershire
were due at Hamadan on the 25th, while the fourth company
was at railhead.
On the 20th August, General Dunsterville started for Derbend
in the President Kruger, accompanied by Commodore Norris,
to arrange for co-operation by Bicharakoff. But on approaching
that port next afternoon their ship, which was unarmed, was
fired on by a Bolshevik vessel and, not wishing to get shut up
in Derbend, they returned to Baku.
On the 20th, Major Wagstaff, who was in command of the
detachment about Mianeh watching the Turkish troops at
Tabriz, reported that Turks were coming down the Tabriz
road. His detachment, located north-westward of Zenjan,
consisted of a few Dunsterforce British officers and non-com
missioned officers with some 650 levies and a platoon l/4th
Hampshire, and its advanced patrols seem to have been about
five miles from Yusufabad, which was thirty miles south-east
of Tabriz ; while at Zenjan there were one squadron 14th
Hussars and fifty rifles l/2nd Gurkhas. The Turkish 11 th
Caucasus Division was beheved to have concentrated recently
at Tabriz, so that this movement might be the commencement
of an advance against our vulnerable line of communication
with the Caspian.
On the 21st and 22nd reinforcements consisting of a section
each 44th and C/69th Field, and 21st Mountain Batteries,
two armoured cars, one hundred rifles l/4th Hampshire and
* A good many Russian and Armenian bad characters had arrived with the
Jelus and it was thought that they and the armed Jelus might give trouble.
The formation of the Urmia Brigade had begun and General Cobbe had also
authorised the retention at Hamadan of one of the three Gloucestershire
companies due there on the 25th.
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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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