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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [179r] (362/540)
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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♦ TURKS ATTACK CASSELS
301
strength was considered possible and at 1.30 a.m. on the 28th
October a column consisting of D/336th and C/337th Field
Batteries, one section 2/86th Heavy Battery, the l/39th
Gahrwahs and the 238th Machine Gun Company (less two
sections) left the Little Zab to join the force under General
Sanders.
i A o t o r u a quiet night the llth Cavalr y Brigade, at dawn* on
the 28th October, could see no enemy movement to the south
ward or south-westward. Getting into communication with
General Sanders across the Tigris by visual signalling. General
Cassels asked him to send his pontoons to the ferry, where
there were only one raft and a small captured boat working
and where the welcome arrival of over 800 rounds of 18-pounder
ammunition had just been reported.
To the northward the squadron of the 7 th Hussars was still
m touch with the enemy detachment reported the previous
day, and General Cassels had no sooner sent (about 7am)
two armoured cars to join this squadron than he received a
report from it that the enemy looked like advancing and had
started to work round the squadron's left.
About the same time enemy infantry were seen some two
miles to the south advancing northwards. They were extended
on a front of about seven hundred yards with their right on
the river and were moving forward slowly and deliberately.
General Cassels at once sent this information to General
Sanders and asked him to get his guns into action so as to
enfilade the enemy and also to send some infantry by the
ferry as soon as possible. The Turks opened fire with their
guns about 7.20 a.m. on both the llth Cavalry Brigade and
General Sanders' column. But the latter could not locate
the hostile gunsj* till after 8 a.m., when the positions of two
Turkish batteries were reported by our airmen, and could at
first only range on the “bursts” of “ W ” Battery’s shells.
The fire of “ W ” Battery was apparently accurate and effective,
as, though the enemy was advancing in considerable strength,
his progress continued to be slow.
At 8 a.m. General Cassels heard that General Sanders had
sent the l/7th Gurkhas to join him by the ferry. Soon after
wards he decided to deliver a counter-attack against the enemy’s
left by sending the 7th Hussars (less two squadrons) to move
across his own front and round the enemy's left under cover
* Sunrise was about 6.15 a.m.
t The number of these was difficult to estimate.
Cassels estimated that the Turks had 24 guns in action.
By evening General
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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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