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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [178r] (360/540)
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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SANDERS’ COLUMN
299
give, he said, would be by co-operatioh from the Tigris left
bank opposite the stretch between Sharqat and Qabr Gazi
and by sending some infantry, if available, to join General
Cassels on the right bank.
During the afternoon the 11th Cavalry Brigade continued
to strengthen its defensive position. General Cassels assumed,
for lack of information to the contrary, that the 7th Hussars
squadron had succeeded in holding up the enemy detachment
to the north ; and at 5.30 p.m. two armoured cars returned
from reconnaissance northward and reported that they had
drawn fire, about five miles north of Hadraniya, from two
hostile camel guns. These armoured cars remained with
General Cassels for the night.
General Sanders' column reached a point eastward of Sharqat
about 8 p.m. There was no sign of any enemy bridge there
and, after leaving the l/9th Middlesex to piquet the river
between Sharqat and Tulul-al-Aqr,* the column marched
on. It was apparently about this timet that General Sanders
sent off a message to General Cassels by a cavalry patrol, saying
that he intended marching all night, that he would do his
best to help, and that the 18-pounder ammunition had been
sent on ahead of his column. General Cassels received this
message at 9.30 p.m. and about an hour later sent an officer
to General Sanders with another message, giving the various
courses which seemed open to the Turks and expressing the
opinion that they would probably leave a rear guard to hold
off the 17th Division while they tried to break through the 11th
Cavalry Brigade. He was consequently in urgent need of
the 18-pounder ammunition and infantry he had previously
asked for.
General Sanders’ column continued to march throughout
the night and, after getting into touch with the 11th Cavalry
Brigade about 4 a.m. on the 28th October, reached the Tigris
bank opposite Huwaish an hour and a half later. Its march of
about thirty-three miles had been a fine performance.
In the meantime, at 8 p.m. on the 27th, General Cobbe had
issued an operation order for the next day’s movements. In
this it was stated that the enemy was reported to be rapidly
entrenching a line about three miles south of Sharqat and that
his pontoon train had left Sharqat, going northward, at 4.15
p.m. The 11th Cavalry and Light Armoured Motor Brigades
* Air reports had stated that the Turkish pontoons were being moved in
this direction.
f The record in which the time should be given is missing.
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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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