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The Long Road to Baghdad. E-book. Formato PDF Edmund Candler - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
We were conscious during the lull before the advance that the two Army Corps on the Tigris, with a bare Turkish ri?es opposed to them, were not pulling their weight. The cold weather was advancing, and the rainy season, which, if severe, might be almost equivalent to immobilisation. There were signs Of impatience at home, uneasiness in India. In the public eye Mesopo tamia had become a sink, a backwater; our troops had lost moral, we were for ever marking time. But it is the proof Of a strong commander not to be hustled by im patience Or the mistrust that grows out of long inaction. Many a campaign has been lost by concession to the Spirit Of restlessness. But Maude chose his own time; nor did he communicate it. If Force D was not pulling its weight, it was because it was still in the training stage. Sinews were being developed. We had to create the staying-power that would carry us on after the first lap or two of the advance. This in the form of material and supplies; for the Army Commander had decided that no move Should be made until we had accumulated a seven days' reserve at Sinn.
The Sepoy. E-book. Formato PDF Edmund Candler - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
All references and statistics concerning the Indian Army will be found to relate to the pre war establishment; and no class of sepoy is included which has been enlisted for the first time since 1914. At the outbreak of war the strength of the Army in India was British and Indian. During the war Indians were recruited. The grand total of all ranks sent overseas from India was The casualties sustained by the force were Races which never enlisted before em listed freely, and the Indian Army List when published on the conclusion of Peace will be changed beyond recognition.
The Long Road to Baghdad. E-book. Formato PDF Edmund Candler - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Owing to ill-health I missed the operations on the Tigris and the shatt-el-adhaim immediately after the capture of Baghdad. My account of this fighting has been written after consultation with regimental officers and brigade, divisional, and corps Staff officers. The local perspective of the battalion is concentrated too much on a single point; and the wider perspective of the Staff is too general and comprehensive for the detailed picture. One perspective is the complement of the other. But descriptions of battles compiled at second hand must always be wanting in life. The non-military reader may find the narrative of these operations a little tedious after the dramatic events that preceded them.