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Mesopotamia Campaign

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Official histories, despatches, reports etc
:Qatar Digital Library versions, best for expansion of maps. From British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/15/66/1-4 . [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551844.0x000001 Vol I]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551852.0x000001 Vol II]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551857.0x000001 Vol III]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551863.0x000001 Vol IV]. To '''access the maps''', open the volume links, then expand the heading "About this record", and scroll down for links to the maps.
:Also available in Naval & Military Press reprint editions which in turn are available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as one digital book [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8fYHZVXDO ''The Campaign in Mesopotamia''] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq).
*War Diaries, Army Headquarters India for I. E F "D", held at the British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223 through to IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3328A have been digitised on the Qatar Digital Library.
:British Library catalogue record [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79qrt5/IAMS040-000795917 IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223] Click on Browse this collection to access details of other records, and click through to Qatar Digital Library for the digitised items.
:The final item in this series is British Library catalogue record [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/1r5koim/IAMS040-000796023 IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3328A General Routine Orders (incomplete)] by the Commander of Indian Expeditionary Force D between 28 December 1915 and 10 July 1918.
*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke RFA (Retired) (London: HMSO, 1935-1945)
**''Part 1 - The Regular British Divisions'' pub. 1935. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-1 Archive.org]
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