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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [‎198r] (400/540)

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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APPENDIX XL.
335
28th
Infantry
Brigade.
Artillery.
'2nd Leicestershire Regiment.
51st Sikhs.
53rd Sikhs.
56th Rifles.
No. 136 Machine Gun Company.
.28th Brigade Supply and Transport Company.
"9th Brigade, R.F.A.(19th, 20thand28th Batteries) = 18guns
56th Brigade, R.F.A. (A, B, C and D Batteries) L 16 guns.
D/69 Howitzer Battery, R.F.A. = 4 guns.
Three small arm ammunition sections.
Engineers and / 1st, 3rd and 4th Companies, Sappers and Miners
Pioneers. \ 121st Pioneers.
7th Divisional Signal Company.
7th Divisional droops Supply and Transport Company.
7th Division Supply Column.
Nos. 127, 128, 129, 130 Combined Field Ambulances.
No. 12 Sanitary Section.
No. 2 Mobile Veterinary Section.
Corps Troops.
32nd Lancers (less two squadrons) £ One squadron, Samarra ;
^ \ squadron, Falluia.
2/66th Battery, R.G.A. (60-pounders) = 4 guns.—With 7th Division.
157th Battery, R.G.A. (60-pounders) =4 guns.
No. 789 Mechanical Transport Company,
A.S.C. (Caterpillar tractors.)
159th Siege Battery, R.G.A. (6-inch howitzers)
= 4 guns.
No. 788 Mechanical Transport Company,
A.S.C. (Caterpillar tractors.)
Nos. 133, 134, 135 Trench Mortar Batteries..
No. 59 Anti-aircraft Section ..
No. 93 Anti-aircraft Section ..
No. 208 Anti-aircraft Section ..
1st Corps Signal Company.
No. 1 Printing Section.
No. 1 Lithograph A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. Section.
fHalf section, Field Searchhght Company.
Attached ^ Three pack stations, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron.
] One wagon station, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron.
I No. 3 Combined Field Ambulance. (Convalescent Depot.)
)»At Shumran.
At Kut.
Baghdad area.
Samarra, with 7th Division.
Shumran.
IIIrd Corps. Headquarters.—Baghdad.
On Tigris left bank, north of Baghdad, in area bounded on north by the
line Baquba-Sindiya and on east and west by Diyala and Tigris rivers.
The 36th Brigade formed the garrison of Baghdad city.
13/A Division .—Headquarters at Sindiya.
6th King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).
6th East Lancashire Regiment.
38th Infantry J 6th Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire)
Brigade. 6th Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire).
No. 38 Machine Gun Company.
k 38th Brigade Supply and Transport Company.

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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
Extent and format
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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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [‎198r] (400/540), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/66/4, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100049244986.0x000001> [accessed 12 February 2025]

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