NAM.1994-05-48-16

Manuscript memoir on loose sheets of service in Mesopotamia; there are more than one version of some sections and with typescript versions of some. Includes accounts of moving into a ‘prepared’ position on 7 March, near the Dujailah Redoubt at Kut, and the movement nearby of a larger column under artillery fire; taking up a position in and around a series of nullahs (riverbeds), which are subsequently flooded, leading to a night march across them; moving from Sheik Saad on March 21st with mules and carts and the difficulties encountered. Boarding a ship for onward transit to Orah. Associated with the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 13th Division, 47th Sikhs, 36th Sikhs and 82 and 92nd Punjabis. From a collection of papers and diaries of Colonel F T Birdwood OBE, Indian Army, 1915-1947, relating to World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918) and World War Two, Far East (1941-1945).

Kut, Siege of, 1915-16 (World War One, Mesopotamia 1914-1918)