"British in northern Iraq or Iran WWI" Topic
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| brass1 | 25 Sep 2016 10:06 a.m. PST |
A couple of months ago I ran across a brief article somewhere about a British WWI operation in northern Iraq (I think) that comprised at its inception a squadron of cavalry and the first automobile ever to visit that area, the squadron commander's touring car. Naturally, I didn't bookmark it and, although my Google-fu is not normally weak, I can't find it again. Searching the message boards at TMP yielded several trillion posts from the Ultramodern board and little else. Any help will be greatly appreciated. LT |
| Martin Rapier | 25 Sep 2016 10:21 a.m. PST |
It was called Mesopotamia in those days, which may help the searching. Iran was still Persia. I met some Iraqi refugees who still described themselves Mesopotamian. |
| Marianas Gamer | 25 Sep 2016 12:00 p.m. PST |
I believe that you are looking for info on "Dunsterforce" led by General Dunsterville.
LB |
| inverugie | 25 Sep 2016 12:15 p.m. PST |
Agree with MG about 'Dunsterforce'. Try to find Peter Hopkirk's book, published by Oxford University Press, on the subject. |
| Giles the Zog | 25 Sep 2016 12:22 p.m. PST |
Yes, Dunsterforce: "A British General on the Caspian, the only sea unploughed before by British keels, on board a ship named after a South African President and whilom enemy, sailing from a Persian port, under the Serbian flag, to relieve from the Turks a body of Armenians in a revolutionary Russian town." Wikipedia article:
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| brass1 | 25 Sep 2016 10:17 p.m. PST |
Hopkirk's book is, I'm pretty sure, what I'm looking for. Thanks, all. LT |
| Gnu2000 | 27 Sep 2016 5:27 a.m. PST |
There is was also the Malleson Mission on the other side of the Caspian Sea. The history of the 28th Light Cavalry details their contribution as well as their service as part of the East Persia Cordon preventing German infiltration into Afghanistan – which is also covered in Hopkirk's "Like Hidden Fire". Dunsterville's diaries are available on line (sorry I don't have a url to hand) which include the period of Dunsterforce and the defence of Baku. There was also an article about the battle in "Military History" magazine a few years ago. Both Dunsterville and Malleson operated north of Persia (Iran). Mesopotamia (Iraq) has lots of interesting actions of its own: see "Battles on the Tigris" for a good summary. |
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