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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [188v] (381/540)
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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316 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
yards further back. Their men had become somewhat scattered
and they covered a frontage of about two miles, with a gap
between the Highlanders and the Gurkhas and another gap
further westward where the left company of the Gurkhas, in
feeling for the enemy’s right flank, had lost touch. The 14th
Sikhs were about half a mile in rear of the Gurkha centre, the
45th Sikhs were near the road over a mile to the right rear of
the Highland Light Infantry and the 34th Infantry Brigade
was on the road half a mile in rear of the 45th Sikhs. The
strength of the enemy force holding the trenches in front of the
17th Division was uncertain and it was not till later that it was
estimated at about 4,000 infantry and six batteries of artillery.
General Leslie, the numbers of whose available attacking
force amounted to about 3,000 rifles and 34 guns, decided to
organise an assault on the enemy’s left front on a frontage of
eight hundred yards. The 45th Sikhs were to lead the attack,
with their right on the edge of the plateau above the road,
and were to pass through the Highland Light Infantry, with
the 34th Infantry Brigade following them in support to confirm
success. The eighteen field guns and howitzers were to bombard
the frontage of assault from “ zero ” hour till the assaulting
infantry were within one hundred yards of the position and were
then to lift three hundred yards for three minutes, the signal
for the “ lift ” being given by the discharge of rockets and by
forward observation officers. The mountain guns were to
bombard the portion of the enemy’s line not being assaulted;
and the four heavy guns were to carry out counter-battery work.
A message was also-sent giving “ zero ” hour as 3.30 p.m. and
asking for co-operation by the guns of the 18th Division on
the Tigris left bank.
Ground reconnaissance and artillery registration took longer
than had been anticipated, and eventually “zero” hour was
fixed at 4 p.m. In regard to artillery registration, the forward
observing officers found it difficult to discern the enemy s
trenches clearly or to arrange communication back from the
front ; no aeroplane was available till too late for observation
work ; and there was a shortage of gun ammunition due, in
the first place, to the transport difficulties. Further, apparently
by an oversight, the fact that it had been found necessary to
postpone “ zero ” hour from 3.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. w r as riot
communicated to the 18th Division. Consequently its guns
and those with General Cassels stopped firing at 3.30 p.m.
During the early afternoon the 45th Sikhs and 34th Infantry
Brigade, moving up on to the plateau, concentrated about a
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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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