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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 XLVI.
395
Nahr Umar.
Headquarters, Administrative Post.
83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry (less detachments).
Detachments, Works Directorate.
Nos. 29 and 39 (Local) Labour Corps.
No. 11 Jail Porter Corps.
Nos. 2 and 3 Turkish Prisoner of War Corps.
No. 57 Combined Station Hospital (less detachments).
Headquarters, Administrative Post.
Two companies, Nabha Imperial Service Infantry (less detachments).
Detachment, Engineer Field Park.
Detachments, No. 2 Works Company and Electrical and Mechanical
Section.
No. 27 (Local) Labour Corps.
Intermediate Supply Depot.
Detachment, No. 57 Combined Station Hospital.
Central Control Station.
Detachment, 85th Burma Rifles.
2/6th Devonshire Regiment.
44th Merwara Infantry.
85th Burma Rifles (less 2£ platoons).
No. 2 Works Company (less detachments) and other detachments from
Works Directorate.
Detachment, 4th Camel Corps.
British and Indian Depots.
Ordnance detachments.
“ I ” Company, Supply and Transport.
Intermediate Supply Depot.
Detachment, Military Forwarding Establishment.
British and Indian Convalescent Depot.
Isolation Hospital.
No. 32 British General Hospital.
Nos. 12 and 21 Indian General Hospital.
Five cars, No. 23 Motor Ambulance Convoy.
No. 3 Advanced Depot Medical Stores.
Detachment, No. 1056 M.T. Company.
Headquarters, River Sick Convoy Unit.
Nos. 17 and 46 Sanitary Sections.
Headquarters, Remount Depot.
Nos. 4 and 6 Remount Squadrons.
“ B ” and “ F ” Syce Companies.
Nos. 1 and 9 Field Veterinary Stores.
River Irrigation.
Grass and Dairy Farms.
Central Laboratory.
Inland Water Transport. Construction and Repair Workshops.
Nos. 25 and 36 (Local) Labour Corps.
Detachment, Madras Gardeners.
Ali Gharbi.
Headquarters Administrative Post.
Two platoons, 85th Burma Rifles.
Qurna Section.
Qurna.
A mar a Section.
Amara.
Headquarters Administrative Post.
Post Hospital.

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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).

Physical characteristics

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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Title
'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.'
Pages
front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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