(Listing continued from ADM 137/205/9). Folios 522-540: Volume IV, Appendix V – Distribution...

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Folios 522-540: Volume IV, Appendix V – Distribution of troops

Folios 522-525: Volume IV, Appendix V: Indian Expeditionary Force “D”. Distribution of troops for week commencing 27 February 1916.

Folios 526-530: Volume IV, Appendix V (continued): Indian Expeditionary Force “D”. Distribution of troops for week commencing 26 March 1916.

Folios 531-534: Volume IV, Appendix V (continued): Indian Expeditionary Force “D”. Distribution of troops for week commencing 7 May 1916.

Folios 535-540: Volume IV, Appendix V (continued): General Headquarters. IEF “D” dated 14 November 1916. In continuation of Secret Memorandum No 0/1228/7 dated 11 October 1916. The Army will be re-organised as indicated..., signed by Major General A W Money. Organisational chart, (folios 537-540).

Folios 541-545: Volume IV, Appendix VI – Reports on siege of Kut. Folios 541-543: Volume IV, Appendix VI: Report on the siege of Kut by Lieutenant L C P Tudway, RN, after arriving at Kut on the morning of 2 December 1915. Folios 544-545: Volume IV, Appendix VI (continued): A report by Sub-Lieutenant E Vane Tempest, RNVR, dated 4 May 1916. On 30 April 1916...”I went in the Shihab under Lieutenant King to Kut under a white flag with 300 tons of stores for the British garrison...”

Folios 546-552: Volume IV, Appendix VII – Mentions in despatches.

Folios 546-550: From General Townsend’s despatch on Defence of Kut-al-Amarah (pp 36 and 39 of No 26 in HS/C-2). Sub-Lieutenant Tudway and his detachment of the Royal Navy. Mentions (Ref p 11 of General Lake’s despatch No 24 in HS/C-2). Rear-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, (folio 546); Captain Wilfrid Nunn, (folio 547); Commander Wason, (folio 547); Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Lewis Reed, (folio 547); Lieutenant H O B Firman, (folio 546); Lieutenant-Commander CH Cowley, (folio 546). Paragraphs 65, 67 and 69 on p12 of General Lake’s despatch No 25 in HS/C-2: Royal Naval Air Service, (folio 547); Royal Flying Corps, (folio 547); Royal Indian Marine, (folio 547); the temporary officers in command of the river steamers plying between the Tigris front, (folio 548); Medical services, (folio 548); T A Chalmers of Assam with his specially designed motor boat “Ariel” , (folio 548). For the advance from Ali Gharbi and operations from January to April [1916], (folios 548-549). From Senior Naval Officer’s letter of 8 May 1916 (In Appendix 1). Lieutenant A R Chalmer, HMS Cranefly, (folio 548). Lieutenant I M Palmer, DSC, (folio 548);. Shipwright Second Class George Lewis Thomas ON M6529, HMS Gadfly, (folio 548); Chief Petty Officer George Baker ON 174322 Coxswain of HMS Cranefly, (folio 549); Leading Seaman Archdeacon Weaire, ON J10544, (folio 549); Alfred Ernest Wilton, Stoker Petty Officer, ON D161168, , (folio 549); Lionel John Matthews, Able Seaman, CSC J960 , (folio 549); Commander A Hamilton DSO, RIM, HMS Cranefly, (folio 549); Commander C R Wason, (folio 549); Commander Bernard Buxton, HMS Mantis, (folio 549); Sub-Lieutenant Vane Tempest, RNVR, (folio 549); Lieutenant Hallet, RIM, HMS Proserpine, (folio 549). From despatch by Lieutenant-General Sir P H N Lake, KCB, dated 27 August 1916, (No 28 in HS/C-2) Page 2: Captain Wilfrid Nunn, (folio 550) and W Grant Admiralty Overseer at Abadan, (folio 550).

Folios 551-552: Extract from the London Gazette dated 2 February 1917. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the posthumous grant of the Victoria Cross to the following officers in recognition of their conspicuous gallantry in an attempt to re-provision the force besieged at Kut-al-Amara: Lieutenant Humphry Osbaldeston Brooke Firman, RN, and Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Cowley, RNVR.

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