'WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. ''D''. Volume 47. PART I. (From...

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'WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. ''D''. Volume 47. PART I. (From 1st to 15th June 1918).'

20 Apr 1918-15 Jun 1918

The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 June 1918. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, which include: letters, telegrams, notes, reports, tables, and memoranda. An index to the contents of this volume can be found at folios 3-29. The volume concerns:. Appreciations [reports] and intelligence summaries from the Directorate of Military Operations dated 3 June 1918 (ff 65-67), 10 June 1918 (ff 237-238); Supplies, particularly of tinned fruit, tents, and railway equipment; Reports from the Royal Flying Corps of machines in service and pilots available; The movements and aims of Dunsterforce; Crop forecasts and machinery requirements for the harvest in Mesopotamia; Movement of ships and loads transported; Lists of officers sailing from England for Basrah [Basra] and India; Movements of the Turkish [Ottoman] Army; Reports on health and sanitary conditions, including bilharzia and beriberi; Progress of railway communications; Personnel requirements and reinforcements; Censorship of letters; The Ottoman Bank; Movements and composition of labour corps; Information about the situation in Baku and Tflis [Tbilisi]; A monthly report on dairies dated 8 May 1918 (ff 147-152); A report by Major-General Sir Francis Edward Freeland entitled 'On the Working and Future Development of the Port of Basra and of the River and Railway Communications in Mesopotamia, April 1918' (ff 284-323); The following tables appear:. Strength return and summaries of Force D on 4 May 1918 (ff 36-38), 20 April 1918 (ff 78-90), 11 May 1918 (ff 166-168), 27 April 1918 (ff 188-203); Weekly return of the sick and wounded on 4 May 1918 (ff 48-49), 11 May 1918 (ff 153-154), 12 May 1918 (ff 258-259); State of supplies on 27 May 1918 (ff 55-57), 31 May 1918 (ff 176-177), 7 June 1918 (ff 272-273); Ration strength of Force D on 11 May 1918 (ff 70-73), 4 May 1918 (ff 181-187), 18 May 1918 (ff 260-263); Distribution of the Turkish Army on 4 June 1918 (ff 95-105), 11 June 1918 (ff 246-255); Distribution of Force D on 11 May 1918 (ff 116-135), 25 May 1918 (ff 223-232); Statement of animal transport and vehicles on 1 May 1918 (ff 217-222)

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Volume 47. PART I.

Public Record(s)

English

1 volume (343 folios)

Unrestricted

The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 345; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-343; these numbers are printed and are located in the bottom centre of the recto side of each folio. Dimensions: 21 x 33cm.