List of Illustrations
1. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst.
2. Bravo Belgium, from Mr Punch’s History of the Great War.
3. Map of the early area of operations.
4. General Sir Beauchamp Duff GCB GCSI KCVO CIE KSt.J.
5. Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) Sir Arthur Barrett KCB KCVO.
6. The setting for the opening shots in the Mesopotamia Campaign, November 1914.
8. Honorary Major General Sir Percy Cox GCMG GCIE KCSI KBE.
9. Captain Nunn (right) and Army officers examine a Turkish gun.
10. The confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates.
12. Mountain guns at Shaiba, April 1915.
14. Major General Sir Charles Mellis VC KCB.
15. Major General C.V.F. Townshend CB DSO.
16. Lieutenant General Sir John Nixon KCB.
17. Major General William Babtie VC.
19. The site of Townshend’s Regatta, 30–31 May 1915.
20. The recently promoted Captain Wilfred Nunn DSO RN.
21. The Turkish ship Marmarice, after the pursuit on 15 April 1915.
22. Major General G.F. Gorringe DSO.
23. Pack animals being moved upstream.
24. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India.
27. Brigadier General Fry and staff officers.
28. Brigadier General W.S. Delamain DSO.
29. The Bayonet – Cartoon from Mr Punch’s History of the Great War.
30. Lieutenant Commander E.C. Cookson VC DSO RN.
32. Major General George Vere Kemball DSO.
33. Enva Pasha with unknown German officer.
34. General Sir George de Symons Barrow GCB KCMG.
35. The line of advance of the 6th Division.
37. Field Marshal von der Goltz.
38. Colonel Sir Mark Sykes Bt MP.
39. The Battle of Ctesiphon (1).
40. Lance Corporal John Boggis, R. Norfolk Regt.
41. The Great Arch of Ctesiphon.
42. The Battle of Ctesiphon (2).
44. The river steamer Medjidieh.
45. The route of Townshend’s retreat to Kut.
47. The stern-wheeler HMS Shushan.
49. The 6th Division’s stronghold on Kut.
52. The Battle of Sheikh Saad.
53. The Battle of the River Wadi.
55. The attack on the Hanna Defile.
56. Lieutenant General Sir Percy Lake KCB KCMG.
57. Pack animals and soldiers struggle in the mud.
58. The GOC and staff officers of the besieged 6th Indian Division.
59. An illustration of how barges were used to increase the capacity of river steamers.
60. The Battle of the Dujaila Redoubt.
62. The last photograph of HMS Julnar.
63. Lieutenant Commander C.H. Cowley VC RNVR.
64. Lieutenant H.O.B. Firman VC RN.
65. One of Townshend’s last messages.
66. One of the Indian soldiers of the 6th Division.
67. Lord George Hamilton, the Chairman of the Mesopotamia Commission.
68. General Sir Neville Lyttelton GCB GCVO.
69. Commander Josiah Wedgwood MP.
70. Sir Frederick Smith MP, the Attorney General.
71. Arthur Balfour, Foreign Secretary.
72. Commonwealth War Grave Commission Cemetery in Basra, now Iraq.
73. Prime Minister’s letter to Mrs Townshend.