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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [177v] (359/540)
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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HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
1064th Field Battery reached the Humr plain after dark and
bivouacked there for the night. For the greater part of the
day General LesHe was out of communication with Colonel
Coningham * but at 3 p.m. General Cobbe, learning from an
air report that Balalij was clear of the enemy, at once ordered
the headquarters 101st Heavy Artillery Brigade with one
section each of 60-pounders and 6 -inch howitzers, escorted by
two troops 32nd Lancers, to join Colonel Coningham at that
place.
To return to General Cassels, who at 2.45 p.m. judged from
information received that the whole Turkish force was on the
right bank of the Tigris. Some 2,000 to 3,000 of its infantry
appeared to be entrenching a line two or three miles south of
Sharqat, another 1,000 infantry were about two and a half
miles south of his own position, apparently 4,000 to 5,000
more infantry were in the vicinity of Sharqat and there was a
detachment twelve to fourteen miles north of him being watched
by a squadron of the 7th Hussars. As regards our own troops
he understood that General Sanders’ column was moving up
the Tigris left bank in his own direction and that the 7th
Cavalry Brigade was at or on its way to Shuraimiya, but he
had no recent information regarding the situation of the 17th
Division. At 3 p.m., therefore, when he sent General Cobbe
a situation report and announced his intention of fighting any
enemy sent against him, he asked what progress had been made
by -the 17th Division. This message crossed one sent by
General Cobbe at 3.20 p.m. (but only received by General
Cassels at 10 p.m.) saying that General Sanders’ column would
arrive opposite Sharqat about 6.30 p.m. and would be able,
if necessary, to reinforce General Cassels with infantry during
the night and also that the 7th Cavalry Brigade, which would
be sent up the Tigris left bank early next morning, should
begin to reach the Hadraniya ford between 10 and 11 a.m.
Immediately after sending this message, General Cobbe visited
the 7th Cavalry Brigade and gave General Norton orders to
start very early next morning and push forward as speedily
as possible to join General Cassels.
At 4.35 p.m. General Cassels sent an officer with a message
to General Sanders giving a summary of the situation and
expressing the opinion that it was possible that the Turks
would make a determined effort to break through the 11 th
Cavalry Brigade. The best help that G eneral Sanders could
* Hearing this, General Cobbe sent an aeroplane at 2.30 p.m. to locate this
column and give it information regarding 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
- Extent and format
- 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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