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*[http://frankstaylorfamilyandroyalnavyhistory.net/InsectClassRiverGunboats.html Royal Navy Insect Class River Gunboats]  
 
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*[http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324303 ''The History of the Iraq Levies, 1915-1932''] by Robert Vernon Joseph Young, PhD Thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) 1997. British Library- EthOS
 
*[http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324303 ''The History of the Iraq Levies, 1915-1932''] by Robert Vernon Joseph Young, PhD Thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) 1997. British Library- EthOS
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.da.mod.uk/wwi/learning-from-war/reading-lists/wwi-readers-guides-1914/middle-east-and-other-theatres/Mesopotamian_Campaign.pdf JSCSC Library Bibliography First World War Series: Mesopotamian Campaign 1914-1918] by Joint Services Command and Staff College Library, U K.  Now archived. Download a pdf.
 
 
*[http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_mesopotamia_moore.htm  "Mesopotamia"]. An article about Kipling’s poem ''Mesopotamia'' from Kipling.org.uk
 
*[http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_mesopotamia_moore.htm  "Mesopotamia"]. An article about Kipling’s poem ''Mesopotamia'' from Kipling.org.uk
 
*[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/KutWarCemetery.html  "Kut War Graves - Iraq"]  [http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/IraqWW1GravesRecovery.html  "Basra"]
 
*[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/KutWarCemetery.html  "Kut War Graves - Iraq"]  [http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/IraqWW1GravesRecovery.html  "Basra"]
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*[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
 
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warincradleworl01egangoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''The war in the cradle of the world  Mesopotamia'']  by Eleanor Franklin Egan 1918. Archive.org The author was correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. More details in [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6546/is_51/ai_n29153246/?tag=content;col1 "Writing "Mesopot": Eleanor Franklin Egan on the river to Baghdad, 1917"] by David Hudson.  
 
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warincradleworl01egangoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''The war in the cradle of the world  Mesopotamia'']  by Eleanor Franklin Egan 1918. Archive.org The author was correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. More details in [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6546/is_51/ai_n29153246/?tag=content;col1 "Writing "Mesopot": Eleanor Franklin Egan on the river to Baghdad, 1917"] by David Hudson.  
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080912134621/http://assyrianlevies.com/gpage4.html  ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] by Brigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG. CBE. DSO. 1932 assyrianlevies.com, now an archived website.
 
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/onroadtokutsoldi00blacrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''On the road to Kut: a soldier's story of the Mesopotamian campaign'']  with 56 illustrations and a map. 1917 Archive.org. The author appears to be an officer from India in a Mule Corps.
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/onroadtokutsoldi00blacrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''On the road to Kut: a soldier's story of the Mesopotamian campaign'']  with 56 illustrations and a map. 1917 Archive.org. The author appears to be an officer from India in a Mule Corps.
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org

Revision as of 07:50, 15 July 2015

Mesopotamia Campaign
6 November 1914-14 November 1918
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
Mesopotamia - Troops entrenching.jpg
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
Battlemappic.gif 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.

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: Outbreak of Hostilities, Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia, published 1923; Volume II: April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara, published 1924; Volume III: 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
Volume 1

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

References

  1. Mesopotamia 1920-21 from Harry’s Sideshows by Harry Fecitt kaiserscross.com
  2. Iraq Administration Reports 1914–1932
  3. 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.
  4. Elias Henry Jones homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)