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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [185v] (375/540)
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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312 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
point some four miles to the south, though there might be some
a mile further north. General Cassels then asked the airman
to locate the nearest enemy troops to the south and also to
reconnoitre for fifteen miles to the north and north-west •
and he received a reply just before 9 a.m. saying that
there were no enemy forces of importance to the north and
northwest and that the nearest enemy troops to the south
were those who had been facing him all night. He then asked
the airman to reconnoitre for fifteen miles to the west; and by
10 a.m. he heard that there were no enemy troops for ten miles
to the west and that the most advanced troops of the 17th
Division were about four miles to the south. General Cassels,
coming to the conclusion that the troops seen three miles to
the south must be Turks, then sent directions to General
Norton to carry out his original orders. During his uncertainty
in regard to the enemy situation, General Cassels had heard
that C/337th Field Battery was crossing the ford and had
told General Norton to retain it. He now cancelled this order
and directed General Norton to keep A/337th Battery but to
send C/337th to join General Cassels.
At 11 a.m. a further air report gave General Cassels the
exact situation of the Turkish main position three miles south
and also a clearer idea of the position of the 17th Division.
He at once sent this information on to General Sanders and he
added that there was no indication that Turks had escaped
to the north and that he was going to turn his own guns on
to the Turkish main position, which he suggested General
Sanders’ guns should also fire at. At 11.30 a.m., C/337th
Field Battery arrived at General Cassels’ position and came
into action to the northeast of Huwaish. Half an hour later
he heard from General Sanders that his guns were in action
against the Turkish main position, that he was pushing infantry
and machine guns to the Tigris bank to the eastward of this
position and that he would like to know if General Cassels
wanted the l/3rd Gurkhas. General Cassels answered this
query in the affirmative.
General Norton, in the meantime, had been engaged with the
enemy detachment, which was holding a bluff about one
thousand yards north of Cemetery Hill and which was obviously
m greater strength than the air reports had led him to expect.
This bluff, over a hundred feet above the plain bordering the
Tigris bank, was at the south-eastern edge of a broad plateau
(see Map 44). After such personal reconnaissance as was
possible, General Norton ordered the 13th Hussars, supported
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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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