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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [104r] (212/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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(27782) N 2
CHAPTER V.
MAY TO DECEMBER 1916:
TURKISH INVASION OF WESTERN PERSIA AND
BRITISH MEASURES IN SOUTH AND EAST PERSIA.
(General Map and Map 4.)
The Russian advance, directed against Ruwandiz and West
Khaniqin, which commenced on the 28th April, met at first jiay 1 J 9 i 6 .
with complete success. Baratoff’s main column, driving back
the Turco-Persian force holding the Pai Taq pass, occupied
Qasr-i-Shirin on the 7th May ; and, on the 13th, part of the
force under Chernozuboff captured Ruwandiz. Then for a
while the Russian advance was stayed. Kut had fallen and
the Turks, in addition to counter-attacking in the north, were
able to reinforce the Persian frontier from both Baghdad and
Kut. The Russians, and especially Baratoff, were faced with
great supply and transport difficulties ; while Baratoff, who
had with him at Qasr-i-Shirin only about a third of the 20,000
Russian troops in Persia* was apprehensive of a Turkish attack
from the Kut direction which would cut his long line of com
munications. He reported on the 13th May that the Turkish
position at Khaniqin was a formidable one and received orders
three days later that he was not to attack it, but was to entrench
himself in his position eight miles to the west of Qasr-i-Shirin.
It appears from German accounts that Colonel Bopp,
commanding the mixed force opposing Baratoff, gave way to
panic when driven back from Pai Taq. The Russians were
not pressing the pursuit; but Bopp, ignoring his orders to
fall back slowly and to stand fast at Khaniqin or on the Jabal
Hamrin and despite the fact that the Turkish 18th Infantry
Regiment and a German machine gun company were on their
way from Baghdad to reinforce him, gave orders for a retire
ment to Baquba. The Turkish portion of the force, under
Shevket Bey, saw no reason to obey these orders and took up
a good position to the east of Khaniqin, but Bopp and his
Persians all retreated to Baquba. In the meantime, Bopp’s
alarmist reports had caused Halil
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, with Gleich as his
Chief of Staff, to hurry back from Kut to Baghdad, which they
* i.e., troops south of Hamadan.
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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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