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Description: | Bound photocopy (176pp) of a ms diary he kept whilst serving as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army Reserve, attached 76th Punjabi Regiment, 30th Indian Infantry Brigade, during the campaign in Mesopotamia, covering the period 23 October 1915 - 16 December 1918 and providing interesting descriptions of the advance on Baghdad from Basra, the Battle of Ctesiphon (November 1915), the retreat from Ctesiphon to Kut-al-Amara, the subsequent siege of Kut and the increasingly desperate supply situation there, the capitulation of Townshend's force to the Turks in April 1916 and the long march into captivity at Smyrna, Turkey; also a bound photocopy of a notebook (39pp) containing transcriptions of messages and Orders of the Day, mainly from Townshend to the force at Kut and to Townshend from others, January - April 1916.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1992-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 76th Punjabi Regiment 30th Indian Infantry Brigade Indian Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rogers, G N | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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