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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [145v] (295/540)
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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236 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
If this view was concurred in, he recommended that the
dangerously exposed detachments at Enzeli and Resht should
be withdrawn and that if the detachment at Krasnovodsk could
not be sent back to him it should be administered by General
Malleson.
On the 9th September, on receipt of the delayed telegrams
of the 4th, 5th and 6 th from Baku, General Marshall telegraphed
to General Dunsterville that it was difficult to understand the
situation at Baku thoroughly but that he did not seem to be
attempting to carry out General Marshall’s orders for with
drawal and that accordingly events in the whole of Persia were
likely to be compromised. On hearing next day of this action
by General Marshall,* the Commander-in-Chief in India at
once telegraphed his views to the War Office as follows. General
Dunsterville appeared to be holding his own, to be improving
his position in Baku and to have obtained possession of a portion
of the Caspian fleet. Bicharakoff’s success at Petrovsk offered
sufficient prospect of his ability to reinforce Baku to justify
considerable risk in retaining our troops there. In fact his
troops might then have reached Baku. After General Dunster-
ville’s undertaking to remain with the Baku people to the end
and in view of the impossibility of his withdrawal, except with
the assent of the fleet, General Monro did not agree with General
Marshall’s action in again reminding General Dunsterville of
the orders to withdraw, nor did he understand how the latter’s
action could compromise events in the whole of Persia. General
Monro recognised, however, that there might be good reasons
of which he was unaware for General Marshall’s action. Unless
however, the War Office considered these very convincing, it
was for consideration whether General Marshall should not be
urged to reinforce Enzeli with all available troops in readiness
to take advantage of any favourable development in the
situation at Baku. This chance of retrieving our position on
the Caspian, thereby securing a short sea-hne of communica
tion between Baku and Enzeli, would enable us to act on
interior lines against the Turkish wings at Baku and Tabriz.f
On the 10th September General Marshall telegraphed that
he had received no further report from General Dunsterville
but that Colonel Clutterbuck, who was sick and had left Baku
on the evening of the 6 th, gave the following information at
Enzeli on the 7th. The hostile bombardment had been renewed
* General Marshall's reports to the War Office were always repeated to
India.
t This telegram does not appear to have been repeated to General Marshall-
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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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