Collection 269/345 ‘Miscellaneous Questions: Refusal to allow an officer to publish an article on “Mesopotamia” on grounds that he should not be allowed to propagate political views with which Govt. does not agree’
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The file contains correspondence relating to the refusal of the War Office to permit a British officer, Major Edward Johnson Ross, to publish an article in the Morning Post. The article discusses British policy in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Ross offers his views on the state of Mesopotamia, argues again...
An Account of the Arab Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden
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'An Account of the Arab tribes in the Vicinity of Aden' that was originally compiled by Captain F M Hunter and C W H Sealy in 1886, added to intermittently by various officers of the Aden Residency and re-published and revised in September 1907 by Captain Arthur Henry Eyre Moose, Assistant Polit...
Papers concerning the Treatment of British Prisoners of War at Kut
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The papers consist of reports and associated correspondence concerning the treatment of British prisoners of war from the British garrison at Kut [Kut Al-Amarah], following its surrender to Ottoman Turkish forces on 29 April 1916. The papers include a typescript memorandum (folios 3-28), issued...
This file consists of letters regarding the demobilisation of British troops in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and India after the First World War. The file contains discussion of the following: the number of troops; artillery forces; origins of troops; breakdown of troops by division, both Indian and Brit...
