'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [151v] (307/540)
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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248 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
encountered in landing them and moving them eastward.
These difficulties were only just being overcome and an advance
to Baku arranged when the news arrived that the Turks had
taken that place.
On hearing of the evacuation of Baku, the War Office
telegraphed to General Marshall on the 16th September, asking
how much shipping was controlled by General Dunsterville
and the enemy at Baku respectively, what damage was done
at Baku before evacuation and whether any troops had been
sent to Krasnovodsk. They also asked General Marshall for
his plans regarding North-West Persia and emphasised the
increased importance to us of Krasnovodsk.
In his reply on the 17th General Marshall said that he had
asked for definite information regarding the shipping. He
understood that we had taken over two ships for arming on
the 13th and begun work on one of them ; while on the previous
day General Dunsterville had telegraphed from Enzeli that
all ships at Baku had been ordered to Petrovsk or Astrakhan
and that the fleet was pro-British and wished to come either
under our control or that of Bicharakoff. General Dunsterville
requested, however, that any action regarding Krasnovodsk
might be taken before the attitude of the fleet possibly changed
into one of hostility. Beyond putting the permanent wireless
station at Baku completely out of action, no damage had been
done before evacuation, though a subsequent report said that
the oil reserves were on fire. No more troops had been sent
to Krasnovodsk, where the maximum that could be supplied
was said to be a battery and a battalion. General Malleson
asked for ample ammunition for the battery, but General
Marshall was unable to transport this to Krasnovodsk, and the
guns at Kaakha had already expended much of what they had.
India proposed that General Malleson should take over com
mand of Krasnovodsk.
As regards his plans in North-West Persia General Marshall
thought that a reconsideration of the situation there and in
Trans-Caspia was necessary. We had narrowly escaped
disaster at Baku, we had extremely small prospects of con
trolling the Caspian fleet—which would be useless without
the oil fuel obtainable only from Baku—and we appeared to
have only a very few merchant ships in our hands. Having
regard to supply and maintenance difficulties he was opposed
to sending more troops to Krasnovodsk and would even
advocate the return to Persia of the detachments already sent
there. The Turks about Sauj Bulag threatened the approaches
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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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