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032-000256868 Subject Military administration Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/770

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/770
Title:
Minutes of the Mesopotamia Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
The file comprises the Minutes of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth meetings of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee held between May and July 1917. The minutes consider the administrative structure in post-war Mesopotamia and staffing of the High Commission. It also considers British an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1917-6 July 1917
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/12604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/12604
Title:
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’
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1920-21 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/MIL/5/783

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/783
Title:
Addtl Cavalry Bgde for Force D
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of correspondence concerning the provision of an additional Brigade for Force D in Mesopotamia. Issues discussed include: equipment to be supplied; maintaining military strength on the North West Frontier of India (folio 45); date of dispatch; and inclusion of horse artill...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1917-1 Dec 1917
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/7/19337

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/19337
Title:
Collection 435/12 Part 1 ‘British Military Mission in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and copies of correspondence relating to the recruitment of Indian Army officers to the British Military Mission in Iraq. Correspondents include the Foreign Office, War Office, Indian Office, Air Ministry, the British Embassy in Baghdad, Government of India and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1932-5 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (201 files)

6. IOR/L/MIL/5/799

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/799
Title:
Mesopotamia: boundaries and disturbances at Deir-es-Zor: 1.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to boundaries and disturbances at Deir es-Zor [Deir ez-Zor, Syria]. The correspondence discusses the political situation in Mesopotamia, tribal uprisings against British occupation and implications for their punishment given various adjustments of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1919-2 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)

7. IOR/L/MIL/5/806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/806
Title:
Memoranda and papers by General Herbert Vaughan Cox, Military Secretary to the India Office, regarding British military strategy in Central Asia and the Middle East
Scope & Content:
The file chiefly comprises typescript and some manuscript copies of letters, memoranda, notes and minutes by General Herbert Vaughan Cox. There are three letters to Cox from external correspondents, some printed memoranda and one cutting from the Morning Post. Folios 1-2 comprise a list of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-8 Jan 1920
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3328A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3328A
Title:
Indian Expeditionary Force 'D', General Routine Orders (incomplete)
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain the General Routine Orders [until 25 September 1916 referred to as Force Routine Orders] by the Commander of Indian Expeditionary Force D between 28 December 1915 and 10 July 1918, along with annexures to these orders and lists issued with the orders. Topics covered include: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1915-10 Jul 1918
Extent:
2 volumes (379 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/21
Title:
The development of the military strength of Turkey. [Translated from the "International Revue" for November 1893 and "Die Reichswehr" for February 1894.]
Scope & Content:
The file contains three extracts from German papers, translated and commented on by Captain Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore in 1894, detailing the latest up-to-date information on the armed strength of Turkey at the time. The extract from the International Revue for November 1893, discusses...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1894
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)