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11. IOR/L/PS/18/B256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B256
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIA ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
Copies of Telegrams between the Viceroy (Frederic Thesiger, The Lord Chelmsford), Secretary of State (Austen Chamberlain) and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the future administration of Mesopotamia, March to April 1917: Telegram P 1234 from Viceroy, Foreign Department, 26 March 1917: regarding the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-Apr 1917
Extent:

3 folios

12. IOR/L/PS/18/B257

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B257
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
Table giving abstracts of proposals made by the War Cabinet, with comments on those proposals by Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and the Government of India. The proposals include: Occupied territories being administered by His Majesty's Government, instead of the Government of India Basra to remain un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917
Extent:

2 folios

13. IOR/L/PS/20/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/35
Title:
‘Report for the Army Council on Mesopotamia. By Sir John P Hewett, GCSI, KBE’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains an illustrated report, with maps, correspondence and statistical data included as appendices, for the Army Council on Mesopotamia [Iraq], prepared by Sir John Prescott Hewett for the War Office, dated 10 March 1919. The report focuses on: a) the administration and expenditure...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (53 folios, 5 maps)

14. IOR/L/PS/20/C190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C190
Title:
Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters: I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1919
Extent:

1 volume (76 folios)

15. IOR/X/3174

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3174
Title:
'The line of Route as traversed by Lieut[enan]t. Rob[er]t. Taylor 2nd. Mad[ra]s. Cavalry from Bagdad to Bussorah via the antient [ancient] canal of the Hye'
Scope & Content:
Covers a 350-mile river route in Mesopotamia between Bagdad [Baghdad, Iraq] and Bussorah [Basra, Iraq] via the River Tigris, Hye Canal [Shatt al Gharraf, Iraq] and River Euphrates. Portrays hydrology, settlements and place names, and includes topographical and navigational notes, and some pictor...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1813
Extent:

1 map sheet

16. Photo 1104(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1104(54)
Title:
View from power house chimney Baghdad. Photographer(s): Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 item

17. TRIG/77

Reference (shelfmark):
TRIG/77
Title:
Iraq. Various Surveys.
Scope & Content:
Comprises the following items. Compiled by Iraq-based War Office units unless stated otherwise. Survey Data and Material Used for the 1:500,000 Iraq, GSGS 3954. Reports on method and progress diagrams. Notes for guidance of future Survey Officers, and procedures. Tables for astro observations a...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1939
Extent:

7 folders