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Mesopotamia River Operations, 1914-1917, Part III, maps. Report compiled in 1919...
Catalogue reference: ADM 137/206
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- ADM 137/206
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914-1917
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Mesopotamia River Operations, 1914-1917, Part III, maps.
Report compiled in 1919 by Captain Wilfrid Nunn CB, CSI, CMG, DSO, RN.
This report on naval co-operation with the Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia covers the period from just before the outbreak of war with Turkey in 1914 until shortly after the capture of Baghdad in 1917.
The Report is in three parts as follows: Part I: Reports - ADM 137/204; Part II: Appendices - ADM 137/205; Part III: Maps - ADM 137/206.
Some maps are bound into Part I (see ADM 137/204) and Part II (see ADM 137/205) and others are filed in Part III (ADM 137/206 this volume) as noted below.
1. Sketch map to illustrate 'Euphrates Blockade' operations by the Intelligence Branch, General Staff, IEF. 'D', dated 10 April 1915.
2. Country around Zubair and Shaiba.
3. Map serial number 18, 3rd S and M Field Litho of Kurna and district corrected to 30 April 1915 by the Intelligence Branch, General Staff, I.E.F. 'D', dated 22 April 1915.
4. Map 3rd S and M Field Litho of Ahwaz dated 18 February 1915.
5. Turkey in Asia and Persia (Kurna to Amara) Country between Nasarayeh and Basra published under the direction of Colonel Francis Becon Longe, R.E., Surveyor General of India, 1910.
6. Country between Nasarayeh and Basra, Intelligence Branch, General Staff, 24 June 1915.
7. Enemy positions as reported by aerial reconnaissance, dated 5 January 1916.
8. Country between Sheikh Said and the Shumrun Bend (Approaches to Kut).
9. Situation 12 April 1916 (Military) showing trenches and units where actually located.
10. Lower Mesopotamia (Sketch map).
11. Disposition of 1st Corps on the nights of 24-25 December and 25-26 December 1916.
12. Disposition 1st Corps on the nights of 27-28 December and 28-29 December 1916.
13. Hannah position to Suwaikieh Marsh, TC3 reprint of parts of sheets A and B, dated 28 March 1916.
14. Turkey in Asia. Baghdad area (India Survey Map), published under the direction of Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, KCSI, RE, FRS, Surveyor General of India.
15. Baghdad. Compiled at the Royal Geographical Society, under the direction of the Geographical Section, General Staff, drawn and printed at the War Office, 1918. (Geographical Section, General Staff, number 2555).
16. The Middle East with Railways inserted up to March 1918. Published by the War Office, January 1912 (Geographical Section, General Staff, number 2594).
17. Turkey in Asia (India Survey Map), 2nd edition, 1916, published under the direction of Colonel Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, KCSI, RE, FRS, Surveyor General of India.
18. Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia with Railways inserted to 1917. Royal Geographical Society map, published in 1910.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- HS 206
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Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War
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