seaJane Posted 5 July , 2015 Share Posted 5 July , 2015 I am still learning about the Tigris / Kut campaign: would those more expert than me consider this article a fair assessment? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/20/iraq.features11 Thanks! sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 5 July , 2015 Share Posted 5 July , 2015 Depends on your point of view - it's the Guardian after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 5 July , 2015 Author Share Posted 5 July , 2015 That's not helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazelclark Posted 5 July , 2015 Share Posted 5 July , 2015 I am still learning about the Tigris / Kut campaign: would those more expert than me consider this article a fair assessment? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/20/iraq.features11 Thanks! sJ That is much the way that I understand it anyway. Have only recently started reading about it in any detail, thanks to a thread about books on the subject, but the "Guardian" article is much the way I have always heard the story. Since it is a very short synopsis of what happenedm I am sure that it is an over simplification but can't see any glaring errors and it seems to be the gist. Those who have studied the subject may disagree? Hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancashire Posted 6 July , 2015 Share Posted 6 July , 2015 Morning, There is an interesting chapter in The Fall of the Ottomans (The Great War in the middle East 1914-1920) Ch 10 - 31 pages by Eugene Rogan, I also have the book Kut 1916 (to read). My interest is that a relative was with the 86th Royal Garrison Artillery and died of wounds at Kut, I will make a new topic on the 86th later. I will also read the enclosed article and comment back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 6 July , 2015 Share Posted 6 July , 2015 There is a discussion about Major-General Townsend (and his book) in For further reading, see the FIBIS Fibiwki page Mesopotamia Campaign, http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Mesopotamia_Campaign,for links to many online books and articles. Includes the Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia. Together with a separate report by Commander J. Wedgwood and appendices. Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1917. Hathi Trust Digital Library Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazelclark Posted 6 July , 2015 Share Posted 6 July , 2015 Thanks for that Maureen. Hazel C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 22 May , 2017 Share Posted 22 May , 2017 Late in the day, but I was looking at coverage of the MC recently and found some interesting coverage in the BMJ at the time and references to and obituaries (BMJ) some years later of some of the key players, e.g., Beauchamp Duff and Robert Markham Carter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete-c Posted 23 May , 2017 Share Posted 23 May , 2017 Maureen, you may have already picked this up, but on Sunday's Antiques Roadshow there was a feature regarding an officer by the name of Yearsley whose WW1 artefacts had recently been unearthed. He had been a POW at Kut and subsequently escaped. You may want to watch this via 'catch-up'. If you can't, let me know, and I'll have a look for you. Cheers, Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 23 May , 2017 Share Posted 23 May , 2017 Thanks for the offer Peter, but I don't think I need to trouble you. I don't think I could access it now , as I'm not in the UK, but Antiques Roadshow is shown on TV here, so I think I will be able see it at some future time. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 22 June , 2017 Share Posted 22 June , 2017 (edited) Just in case anyone is interested or can access it, a clip of the Brigadier’s trunk (A prisoner of war’s trunk reveals the ingenuity of people even in the most difficult times) is @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053fdjc Edited 22 June , 2017 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 23 June , 2017 Share Posted 23 June , 2017 (edited) thanks for the link. The owner admitted that she had binned some of the stuff before realising what she had. So many times this happens. At least she saved something. Charlie Edited 23 June , 2017 by charlie962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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