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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [168r] (340/540)
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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TURKISH DISPOSITIONS
279
Battery were in action some five miles to the north-west of Tel-
ad-Dhahab. The remaining three guns of the 2/86th Battery
came into action at 2 p.m., but the 159th Battery not until
a good deal later. The area where these batteries had to take
up their positions was flat, open and in full view of the Jabal
Makhul and the Humr ridge, where the ground afforded
excellent observation posts and concealment for the enemy’s
guns. Moreover, these disadvantages were accentuated by
the lack, for some unexplained reason, of British aeroplane
observation. Nevertheless this artillery fire was not without
effect, as it attracted to itself much of the enemy’s gun-fire
from the right bank and forced several parties of Turks on the
right bank to fall back. '
At noon an airman reported to General Norton (7th Cavalry
Brigade) at Shumait that about 1,000 Turks were five miles
to the north of him. Thereupon, taking with him the 13th
Hussars and followed by “V” Battery, R.H.A., General
Norton proceeded northward as rapidly as possible for over
an hour and reached a point about five miles north of Nami
without sighting any enemy* The 13th and 14th Lancers
were already in this vicinity and they then started to move
southward along the Tigris bank, followed by General Norton
and the 13th Hussars. To the southward of Nami they took
about one hundred prisoners trying to ford the river. In the
meantime, General Cassels, learning from air reports that the
7th Cavalry Brigade had pushed some way up the Tigris, went
ahead of his troops in a car at 12.30 p.m. He met General
Norton near Nami at 2.45 p.m. and, learning that there were
no enemy remaining on the Tigris left bank, withdrew with his
detachment to Zarariya.
In regard to the enemy detachment which had been between
the Tigris and the right bank of the Little Zab, and which
had been heavily bombed and fired on by our aeroplanes
during the morning, two air reports received by General
Cobbe at 1.45 p.m. and 3 p.m. make the situation clearer. The
first said that the 7th and 11th Cavalry Brigades were both
moving down the right bank of the Little Zab at 12.25 p.m.
with about 1,000 enemy infantry retiring in front of them
towards the Humr bridge. The second reported the enemy’s
dispositions in this area to be as follows at 2.20 p.m. : 200
cavalry and 500 infantry crossing the Tigris by a ferry about
two miles above Sharqat; four guns to the southward of Nami
* The 7th Cavalry Brigade came to the conclusion that our airmen had
mistaken our own cavalry for the enemy.
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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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