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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [212r] (428/566)
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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PARS AND BUSHIRE
373
Communications, and on his arrival in East Persia General Dale
was to become General Officer Commanding Line of Communi
cation Defences.
General Wapshare was to be responsible not only for the
supply and maintenance of General Malleson’s troops, but for
the development of the Line of Communications to meet the
possibility of an increase, by the spring of 1919, of the force
at and beyond Birjand to a cavalry brigade and a division,
including a brigade in advance of Meshed.
At Shiraz the situation remained quiet. Ehtesham, who left Pars;
Firuzabad at the beginning of September to continue his September
operations, attacked Saulat to the south of Qir about the 15th I9lS '
and put him to flight. But at the end of the month the situation
altered somewhat in Saulat’s favour owing to the migratory
movements of various tribal elements and to the intervention
of Wassmuss; and, in accordance with a request by Farman
Farma, Sir Percy Sykes arranged to send twenty-five cavalry
and a hundred infantry of the South Persia Rifles, under
Persian officers, to reinforce the South Persia Rifles detachment
already with Ehtesham at Firuzabad.
On the 20th September Sir Percy Sykes reported that the
Pars Brigade had been reduced* by one cavalry regiment and
an infantry battalion and that the machine gun squadron had
been absorbed temporarily into a cavalry regiment. This left
in existence one cavalry regiment, a battery of artillery, an
engineer company, two infantry battalions and a mule corps,
amounting to a total strength of ten British officers and 1,640
Persian ranks. Sir Percy Sykes had been informed of the
general plan for the advance from Bushire ; and the extent of
the co-operation with this advance by troops from Shiraz had
been settled after discussion with him.
Even before the War and the events recorded in this history, Bushire ;
ffie protection of British subjects and the maintenance of September
British interests in Pars and the Bushire hinterland had been, (J^Map xi
for several years, a source of great embarrassment to the British
and Indian Governments. All the roads had been unsafe,
merchandise had been plundered and unauthorised exactions
had been levied. Moreover, numerous attacks on foreigners.
including two British and two Russian consuls, and the murder
i.e., by desertions and dismissals due to the revolt.
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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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