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Language English Name High Commissioner, Iraq, 1920-1932

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/800
Title:
Mesopotamia: boundaries and disturbances: Pt 2
Scope & Content:
Correspondence consists of telegrams and memoranda relating to boundaries and disturbance in Mesopotamia. Specific topics discussed include: military units deployed; actions of insurgents such as telegraph wires cut and telegraph poles removed; contacts with besieged garrisons. Correspondence ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1920-22 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 file (224 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/801

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/801
Title:
Mesopotamia: boundaries and disturbances: Pt 3
Scope & Content:
Correspondence consists of telegrams and memoranda relating to boundaries and disturbance in Mesopotamia. The correspondence discusses location of insurgencies (including Kirkuk, Sulaimani, Hit, Basrah to Mosul route) and identification of insurgents and methods to repress insurgency including u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1920-1 May 1921
Extent:
1 file (175 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/326

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/326
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines. The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Aug 1919-21 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (405 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/547/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547/2
Title:
File 1093/1915 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- Proposed revival of British Consulate at Basra. Portuguese interests in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the proposed re-appointment of a British Consul at Basra, and how the new post should be funded. Subjects covered include: whether the Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] could also be appointed Consul at Basra (the two places being in close geographica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1922-20 Jun 1929
Extent:

1 item (164 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/663/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/663/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 11 ‘Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying Service. Iraq law for the levy of light dues.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf, hitherto carried out by the Royal Indian Marine. The papers specifically discuss the Government of Iraq arranging for the collection of dues from ships entering or leaving Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1923-28 Jul 1927
Extent:

1 item (98 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/664

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/664
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 13 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying service; Shatt al-Arab Conservancy Board'
Scope & Content:
This volume is composed of interdepartmental correspondence relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the possibility of control of buoying and lighting in the Persian Gulf being transferred to the Government of P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Jun 1928-9 Dec 1931
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/740/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/740/2
Title:
File 1647/1918 Pt 2 'Arabia: Hedjaz; Hostel for pilgrims at Mecca; British Representative at Mecca'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding events after the postponement of plans for a hostel at Mecca to house pilgrims from the British Empire and a British Muslim Representative at Mecca to look after the interests of such pilgrims. The papers are primarily concerned with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1920-14 Aug 1923
Extent:
1 item (77 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/757
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: Future Constitution (Question of further announcement of British intentions) (Transfer of Dep[artmen]ts to Civil Administration)'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of drafts, copies, and originals of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to the British administration in and future constitution of Mesopotamia [present-day Iraq]. The volume covers British concern about increasing resistance to their presence in the countr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Jul 1919-7 Jun 1920
Extent:
1 volume (299 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/758
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 4 'Mesopotamia: Constitution; Colonel Wilson's request for p[rivate]p[apers]'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence (copies, drafts and originals), minutes, and memoranda relating to the future constitution and administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The subject of the volume is a request made by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, to the India Offic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1920-9 Jul 1920
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)