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*[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"]
*[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/* Mesopotamia Campaign  1914-1918] Bilbliography by Joint Services Command and Staff College Library, U K. ( Now archived).  
*[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/* Mesopotamia Campaign  1914-1918] Bilbliography by Joint Services Command and Staff College Library, U K. (Now archived).  A pdf download - depending on your browser, you may need to locate it in your downloads folder.
*Videos: ''World War One Through Arab Eyes''  by Tunisian writer and broadcaster Malek Triki.<ref>[https://passtheknowledge.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/documentary-world-war-one-through-arab-eyes-episode-one-the-arabs-video/ PassTHE knowledge] by Akhi Soufyan</ref> ‪Al Jazeera English. YouTube videos. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzhZkvbbHc ‪ Episode One: The Arabs]‬ . They fought as conscripts for the European colonial powers occupying Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia – and for the Ottomans on the side of Germany and the Central Powers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvNAH1YA-g Episode two: The Ottomans]. Includes the history of the Ottoman-Germany relationship. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLOzdYAMEkU Episode three: The New Middle East]. Includes the way Britain and France divided the former Ottoman Empire between them.
*Videos: ''World War One Through Arab Eyes''  by Tunisian writer and broadcaster Malek Triki.<ref>[https://passtheknowledge.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/documentary-world-war-one-through-arab-eyes-episode-one-the-arabs-video/ PassTHE knowledge] by Akhi Soufyan</ref> ‪Al Jazeera English. YouTube videos. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzhZkvbbHc ‪ Episode One: The Arabs]‬ . They fought as conscripts for the European colonial powers occupying Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia – and for the Ottomans on the side of Germany and the Central Powers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvNAH1YA-g Episode two: The Ottomans]. Includes the history of the Ottoman-Germany relationship. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLOzdYAMEkU Episode three: The New Middle East]. Includes the way Britain and France divided the former Ottoman Empire between them.


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*[http://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00swayuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''In Mesopotamia''] by Martin Swayne  (real name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll Maurice Nicoll]), illustrated by the author. 1917 Archive.org. The author was a doctor in the British Army working in a mobile hospital.  
*[http://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00swayuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''In Mesopotamia''] by Martin Swayne  (real name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll Maurice Nicoll]), illustrated by the author. 1917 Archive.org. The author was a doctor in the British Army working in a mobile hospital.  
*[https://archive.org/details/fromgallipolitob00ewinuoft ''From Gallipoli to Baghdad''] by William Ewing,  Chaplain to the Forces 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromgallipolitob00ewinuoft ''From Gallipoli to Baghdad''] by William Ewing,  Chaplain to the Forces 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811391 ''With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia : 1916-1917''] by One of its Officers. 1918 Archive.org. The author is elsewhere stated to be Harold John Blampied,  [[73rd Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)]].
*[https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain.
*[https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain.
*[https://archive.org/details/baggingbaghdad00bettgoog ''The Bagging of Baghdad''] by Ernest Betts (late the Worcestershire Regiment) a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/baggingbaghdad00bettgoog ''The Bagging of Baghdad''] by Ernest Betts (late the Worcestershire Regiment) a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. 1920 Archive.org
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*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/284792 ''When’s When In Mesopotamia''] by  General Staff, Mes. Ex. Force Printed at the Government Press Baghdad 1919. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Conversion tables  showing the European style dates from August 1914 to December 1919 and the equivalent dates under various other systems: Arabic - Old Style - Turkish Official - Jewish - Persian Zodiacal. Also details of Arabic time, where the day commences at sunset.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/284792 ''When’s When In Mesopotamia''] by  General Staff, Mes. Ex. Force Printed at the Government Press Baghdad 1919. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Conversion tables  showing the European style dates from August 1914 to December 1919 and the equivalent dates under various other systems: Arabic - Old Style - Turkish Official - Jewish - Persian Zodiacal. Also details of Arabic time, where the day commences at sunset.
*''Kalyan Pradeep: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S.-er Jiboni'', by Mokkhoda ['Mokshada'] Debi (1928) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I.M.S.''] in Bengali may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The catalogue entry is ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by  Mokshada  Debi  There are two book files, barcodes 4990010096042 and 4990010212325.
*''Kalyan Pradeep: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S.-er Jiboni'', by Mokkhoda ['Mokshada'] Debi (1928) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I.M.S.''] in Bengali may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The catalogue entry is ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by  Mokshada  Debi  There are two book files, barcodes 4990010096042 and 4990010212325.
*


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 04:35, 15 November 2015

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 returned to India for treatment and convalescence. Some of these sadly became part of the group of soldiers who died in India.[3]

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 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
Links to pdfs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Vol IV Digital Library of India.
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
"The Control of Flies and Vermin in Mesopotamia" page 23 The Review of Applied Entomology Volume V 1917 Archive.org.
Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920 by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also published under the title Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties.
Tales of Turkey by Major E W C Sandes 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.

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. Elias Henry Jones homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)