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IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73
- Record Id:
- 040-000799087
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799011
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00018d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023813239.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73
- Title:
- Naval Staff monographs (historical) vol 4 no 15 - Naval operations in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
- Scope & Content:
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This monograph concerns operations in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf from the outbreak of war with Germany to the fall of Kut on 29th April 1916. It is organised into the following chapters: the theatre of operations; the attitutude of Turkey; the inception of the expedition; landing of the expedition; occupation of Basra; operations against Qurna, 4-9th December 1914; consolidation of the Basra position; occupation of Amara, 3rd June 1915; operations on the Euphrates: capture of Nasiriya, 5th July 1915; naval forces and general situation, summer 1915: operations at Bushire and Dilwar: decision to advance to Kut; capture of Kut and decision to advance to Baghdad; Battle of Ctesiphon, 22nd November 1915 and retreat to Kut; operations for the relief of Kut: Townshend surrenders, 19th April 1916.
The appendices are: telegrams, 1914; orders and instructions; naval forces. Also ten maps including: the Shatt al-Arab; the Euphrates between Basra and Nasiriya; operations for the releief of Kut.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799011
038-000799053
039-000799078
040-000799087 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/15 : Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41-138 : Iraq
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/65-138 : Mesopotamian Campaign
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73 : Naval Staff monographs (historical) vol 4 no 15 - Naval operations in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 36a : Plan 3 showing operations against Qurna, 4th December 1914
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 38a : Plan 4 showing operations against Qurna, 8th December 1914
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 42 : ‘Plan 5 showing probable position of Turks near Rota, 21st Jan. 1915’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 52a : ‘Plan 6. Panorama from Fort Snipe to illustrate first phase of the operations against Amara’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 60b : ‘Plan 8. Sketch of W. end of Gurma Safha’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 76a : ‘Plan 9. Sketch Map of Battlefield of Kut Al ‘Amara’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 98a : ‘Plan 10. Sketch Map to illustrate Operations for the Relief of Kut’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 119 : ‘Plan 1. Mesopotamia’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 121 : ‘Plan II. Mesopotamia. The Shatt Al Arab’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73, p 123 : ‘Plan 7. The Euphrates between Basra & Nasiriya, 24th June, 1915’
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0015]/037-000799011[0002]/038-000799053[0026]/039-000799078[0009]/040-000799087
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
73 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00018d
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1921
- End Date:
- 1921
- Date Range:
- 1921
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation. There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 73.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)