The map accompanies
The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Volume III, and shows a stretch of the River Tigris and surrounding region in central and eastern Iraq, indicating military operations, towns, settlements, the route of a light railway, watercourses and marshes. Notes beneath the title describe the British and Turkish military positions marked on the map in red and green.An inset map in the lower left corner is entitled, 'To Illustrate the Operations in the Khudhaira Bend. January 9th-19th 1917.', and shows a stretch of the River Tigris near the town of Kut at a scale of 1:63,360.Prepared in the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, and printed at the Ordnance Survey in 1925.1 mapMaterials: Printed in colour on paperDimensions: 277 x 505mm, on sheet 358 x 595mm