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*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n131/mode/1up/ "The Motor Cycle in Mesopotamia.  Carrying Despatches Through Deep Mud and Blinding Dust"] page 70  ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 17, July 27th 1916 with [https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n428/mode/1up/ photographs] page 287. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n131/mode/1up/ "The Motor Cycle in Mesopotamia.  Carrying Despatches Through Deep Mud and Blinding Dust"] page 70  ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 17, July 27th 1916 with [https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n428/mode/1up/ photographs] page 287. Archive.org.
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069687--1-.pdf "Australians in Mesopotamia"] Appendix No.5 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V''  by C W Bean, pages 703-784. awm.gov.au
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069687--1-.pdf "Australians in Mesopotamia"] Appendix No.5 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V''  by C W Bean, pages 703-784. awm.gov.au
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11  ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia'']  by Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920. London edition. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
**[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume  Two''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org.  From a New York two volume edition.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/525043 ''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend'']  by Erroll Sherson 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525043 Archive.org version]
*''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914 -1917: From the Outbreak of War to the Death of General Maude'' by Arnold T Wilson 1930 is available to read  online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format, or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/77288 pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77288 Archive.org version]. It is also available  as a  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/279003 2nd pdf download], also from DLI, and as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409322492553 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.
*''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914 -1917: From the Outbreak of War to the Death of General Maude'' by Arnold T Wilson 1930 is available to read  online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format, or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/77288 pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77288 Archive.org version]. It is also available  as a  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/279003 2nd pdf download], also from DLI, and as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409322492553 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920''] by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.  Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920''] by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.  Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
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*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamia031379mbp ''Mesopotamia: The Last Phase''] by Lieut.-Colonel A H Burne Second Edition 1938 (First edition 1936?) Archive.org. From March 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamia031379mbp ''Mesopotamia: The Last Phase''] by Lieut.-Colonel A H Burne Second Edition 1938 (First edition 1936?) Archive.org. From March 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/marvellousmesopo00parfrich ''Marvellous Mesopotamia: The World’s Wonderland''] by  Joseph T Parfit, Canon of St George’s Jerusalem 1920 Archive.org. Contains a number of chapters on WW1,  commencing with “The Causes of the War”. Also  [https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiakeyto00parf  ''Mesopotamia : the Key to the Future''] by Canon J T Parfit 1917 Archive.org and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/143207 ''Serbia To Kut''] by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version] - full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict.
*[https://archive.org/details/marvellousmesopo00parfrich ''Marvellous Mesopotamia: The World’s Wonderland''] by  Joseph T Parfit, Canon of St George’s Jerusalem 1920 Archive.org. Contains a number of chapters on WW1,  commencing with “The Causes of the War”. Also  [https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiakeyto00parf  ''Mesopotamia : the Key to the Future''] by Canon J T Parfit 1917 Archive.org and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/143207 ''Serbia To Kut''] by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version] - full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict.
*[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume 2''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org.  London edition  has title ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''.
**Limited access,  available in full view to those in North America, and perhaps elsewhere: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4505737 ''My Campaign: Volume 1''],  [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355 ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''] Hathi Trust Digital Library. Google Books editions may be available in full view in some countries, but not UK or North America at time of writing [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qs-CAAAAIAAJ  ''Vol 1''], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2fYCAAAAMAAJ ''M.'']
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/525043 ''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend'']  by Erroll Sherson 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525043 Archive.org version]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warillustratedal09hammuoft#page/3052/mode/2up "Progress in Mesopotamia"] from ''The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 9 The Fourth Year 1917-1918''  ed by JA Hammerton 1918 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warillustratedal09hammuoft#page/3052/mode/2up "Progress in Mesopotamia"] from ''The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 9 The Fourth Year 1917-1918''  ed by JA Hammerton 1918 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warillustratedal10hammuoft#page/3382/mode/2up "Final Victories over the Turk"]  from ''The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 10 the Last Phase''  ed by JA Hammerton 1919 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warillustratedal10hammuoft#page/3382/mode/2up "Final Victories over the Turk"]  from ''The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 10 the Last Phase''  ed by JA Hammerton 1919 Archive.org

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Mesopotamia Campaign
6 November 1914-14 November 1918
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
Location: Mesopotamia
Combatants:
United Kingdom Ottoman Empire
Result:

Armistice of Mudros
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire

Medals:
The 1914-15 Star
The British War Medal 1914-18
Links:
Category: Mesopotamia Campaign
See our interactive map of
Mesopotamia Campaign
locations and routes on Google Maps
Mesopotamia 1917 Assistant Surgeon G E Ferguson, IMD

This event is part of the First World War

Synopsis

The Mesopotamia Campaign was fought from November 1914 to November 1918 between the Allies represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from the Indian Empire, and the Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire.

However the country actually remained a theatre of warfare until a peace treaty was ratified in 1924. Large numbers of troops from India were sent to deal with a revolt in 1920[1]

Related articles

For further details of events during this period see the following articles

Biographies

Details of some of the protagonists in the campaign

Also see

British Library holdings

  • British Library Catalogue Link
  • An account of the operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia, December 1917 to December 1918, with the names of all the units which served with the division and a nominal roll of all the officers by Walter Edward Wilson-Johnston 1919.
  • Iraq Administration Reports 1914–1932 in ten volumes (5, 500 pages): Contents: 1. 1914-1918 -- 2. 1918 -- 3-4. 1919 -- 5-6. 1920 -- 7. 1920-1924 -- 8. 1925-1927 -- 9. 1928-1930 -- 10. 1931-1932, with contents outline[2]

Volunteer Regiments

FIBIS resources

  • "Trumpeter Inwood, an Anglo-Indian hero of the Kut Garrison" by Rosemary Reardon FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014) pages 18-29. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals.

Wounded and sick soldiers

Wounded and other ill soldiers from Mesopotamia were sent to India for treatment and convalescence. Some of these sadly became part of the group of soldiers who died in India.[3]

Persia and Transcaucasia

Troops under the control of the Army in Mesopotamia took part in actions in Persia, and later Transcaucasia. See Norperforce.

External links

Historical books online

  • History Of The Great War: The Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Volumes I-IV by F J Moberly. 1923-1927.
The titles are Volume I: To October 1915 : Outbreak of Hostilities, Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia, published 1923; Volume II: To April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara, published 1924; Volume III: To April 1917: The Capture and Consolidation of Baghdad, published 1926; Volume IV: The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia to the Armistice, published 1927.
Hathi Trust Digital Library editions. Note: Missing all/most Maps. Volume II Maps are available in the Archive.org version.
Volume I

Contents

Bibliography

Index

Volume II

Contents

Bibliography

Index

Volume III

Contents

Bibliography

Index

Volume IV

Contents

Bibliography

Index

Chronological Summary of the Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918

Titles of Indian Cavalry, Infantry and Pioneer Units who served in Mesopotamia 1914-1918

Volume II is also available on Archive.org Volume II, Contents, Index. Map: Middle East and Maps 8-9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. Description of Maps
Links to pdfs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Vol IV Digital Library of India. Archive.org versions Vol III, Vol IV.
"Casualties in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, November 1914 to December 1918" page 218 History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 Hathi Trust Digital Library
Appendices To The Report Of The Commission For Medical Arrangements In Mesopotamia Vol-II (July 1916). Link to a pdf download. Digital Library of India. Archive.org version.
"The Control of Flies and Vermin in Mesopotamia" page 23 The Review of Applied Entomology Volume V 1917 Archive.org.
"Heat-Stroke" Chapter IV page 51 In Mesopotamia by Martin Swayne (real name Maurice Nicoll) 3rd edition 1918 Archive.org. Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
  • With the M. T. in Mesopotamia by Brevet Lt.-Col F W Leland RASC 1920 Hathi Trust Digital Library. (M.T.= Mechanical Transport, part of the Royal Army Service Corps)
From the Gulf to the Caspian : being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd. Motor Ambulance Convoy which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia, 1916 to 1919 written by various members of the unit who remain anonymous. [1920?] State Library of Victoria. This Unit consisted of Army Service Corps personnel, together with Royal Army Medical Corps personnel.
The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on Mesopotamia.
"Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)" by Captain A E Battle, RE Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend by Erroll Sherson 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version
Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920 by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a download from Kurdipedia.org 1936 edition. Also published under the title Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties.
  • Page 99 T. E. Lawrence: In Arabia and After by Liddell Hart 1934 Archive.org. T E Lawrence accompanied Aubrey Herbert, to negotiate regarding the besieged Kut garrison. Extracts from Lawrence’s description of these proceedings, in a letter dated 18 May [1916] from the website A Century Back: Writing the Great War, Day by Day. April 29, 2016. Scroll down. The letter was written to his family,[6] see more details.
Tales of Turkey by Major E W C Sandes 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version.
Despatch from Major General Sir George F MacMunn, officiating Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, describing events since 1st January 1919, including North Persia, and Southern and Cental Kurdistan, for various operations between March and September 1919. The London Gazette 5 March 1920 Supplement: 31813 Page: 2877. The actual pages are dated 8 March 1920.
Four Despatches from the Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force: Despatch No 1, dated 17th January 1920 from MacMunn, covering the period November 1919 to 17th January 1920. Despatches from Lieutenant-General Haldane, covering the periods: 18th January 1920 to 30th June 1920 in Mesopotamia and NW Persia.[Despatch No 2 dated 23rd August 1920. Page 5323]; 1st July 1820 to 19th October 1920 [Despatch No 3 dated 8th November 1920, page 5329] Despatch No 4, dated 8th February 1921 (page 5347) The London Gazette 1 July 1921 Issue: 32379 Page:5321.

References

  1. Mesopotamia 1920-21 from Harry’s Sideshows by Harry Fecitt kaiserscross.com
  2. Iraq Administration Reports 1914–1932
  3. Khyber Pass 1/5th Royal West Surrey, Murree, Aug 1916 Great War Forum 27 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015
  4. The dates of the entries are in the top LH corner of the Home webpage. The entries from the journal are in the format http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/ab.cd.ef.shtml , where, for a particular entry, ab is the year, cd is the month, ef is the first mentioned day in the month (all two digits). For archive.org diary entries, scroll down to URLs containing the word journal.
  5. PassTHE knowledge by Akhi Soufyan
  6. 29 April 2016: On this day in history T E Lawrence Society on Facebook. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  7. Elias Henry Jones homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)