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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [183r] (370/540)
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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COBBE’S ORDERS
309
He considered that such a movement by his tired force, through
the difficult unreconnoitred country in front of him, would be
likely to lead to confusion and he thought that the same end
could be attained by daylight. To General Cobbe, however, it
seemed evident that the enemy’s main effort would be directed
during the night to an attempt to break through General
Cassels’ force, for which the Turks would employ the greater
part of their troops unless the 17th Division followed their rear
closely. General Cobbe realised fully the great exhaustion of
men and animals and the nature of the demands which had
been made on their physical endurance for the past four days.
But he considered that the circumstances justified him in
ordering the 17th Division to close with the enemy at the earliest
possible moment. He was, therefore, unable to accede to
General Leslie’s request to allow his force to rest till daylight.
During the 28th October General Cobbe had been kept well
in touch with the general situation by air-reports. On the other
hand, the cable communications between his headquarters and
the different columns and formations had been frequently
interrupted, owing to the cables having been destroyed by shell
fire or by Arabs, or in one or two cases to report centres having
outrun the cable. General Cobbe had four wireless stations
at his disposal. Of these, two pack stations were with the 7th
and 11th Cavalry Brigades, one motor station with the Light
Armoured Motor Brigade and a wagon station with 1st Corps
Headquarters.
Throughout the night 28th/29th the Turks displayed con
siderable activity along the portions of General Cassels’ front
held by the 11 th Cavalry Brigade and the l/7th Gurkhas,
the brunt of the fighting being borne by the Guides and the
Gurkhas. But the hostile guns ceased firing altogether after
the earlier part of the night; and, although in places the Turks
got within one hundred yards of our line, they made no real
effort to break through. The 13th Lancers of the 7th Cavalry
Brigade held a line which extended, from a point between
Hadraniya and the ford, in a southwesterly direction to the right
of the 11th Cavalry Brigade; and here the only incident of
importance during the night was the surrender of a Turkish
field ambulance with about 100 men.
At 1.45 a.m. on the 29th October General Cassels informed
General Sanders, in answer to a query on the subject, that he
would like another field battery and the 1 /3rd Gurkhas warned
to be ready to join him. About 4.30 a.m. the l/39th Gahrwalis
and 238th Machine Gun Company started to cross the ferry
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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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