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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language French Name Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, 1917-1920

1. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/572/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/572/2
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
Scope & Content:
Part 10 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the return or disposal of enemy (Turkish or German) property and other assets in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War. The volume includes: an enquiry from the Hamburg firm Robert Wönckhaus & C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jul 1918-6 Apr 1922
Extent:

1 item (187 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/667

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/667
Title:
File 978/1917 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia and Persia: occupation of Baghdad; protection of holy places'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the protection of Shiah Holy Places and Persian subjects by the British Government after the occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Related matters of discussion include the following: the situation in d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Mar 1917-2 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 volume (199 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/671
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda and telegrams related to the supply of overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The main issues discussed in the volume are the following: The question of whether to continue using the overprinted Turkish stamps after the declar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Oct 1917-2 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/736/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/736/1
Title:
File 1000/1918 Pt 5 'Persia: Negotiations leading up to the Anglo-Persian Agreement 1919'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding negotiations between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran] leading up to the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919. The correspondence discusses the negotiations themselves as well as the proposed content of the agreement, and the item include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1919-18 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 item (262 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/755
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration of policy and situation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of, and situation in, Mesopotamia [Iraq] following the Asia Minor Agreement of 1916, more commonly known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, between the French and British governments, and the An...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
23 Oct 1918-2 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/773
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: refugee camp at Baqubah (1918-1919 papers)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British and French officials regarding the Christian (mostly Assyrian) refugees in the refugee camp at Ba’qubah [also written Baqubah] in Mesopotamia, and their possible repatri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1918-29 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (256 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/774

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/774
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 2 'Mesopotamia: Refugee Camp at Baqubah (1920 – papers)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British and French officials regarding the Christian (mostly Assyrian and Armenian) refugees in the refugee camp at Baqubah [also written Ba’qubah, Ba’quba and Baquba] in Mesopo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Dec 1919-30 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (464 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/781

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/781
Title:
File 36/1919 Pt 1-2 ‘KURDISTAN SITUATION & POLICY’
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda and reports regarding the political situation in Kurdistan between 1918 and 1920. This volume is separated into two parts: ‘Kurdistan: Situation.’ (IOR/L/PS/10/781/1) ‘Kurdistan: Policy & Future of’ (IOR/L/PS/10/781/2). E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Oct 1918-4 Feb 1920
Extent:
1 volume (549 folios)