Collection 425/1269 Government of India grant railway conveyance from stations to selected places of residence in India for families of officers dying on service.
Collection 425/1270 Arrangements for transfer of British, Austrian and German prisoners of war to Holland under terms of Hague Agreement; supply of food to Indian prisoners of war in Holland.
Collection 425/1271 Part 1 Reports on (1) conservancy of Shatt-el-Arab river from port of Basra to Persian Gulf and (2) development of port of Basra by Sir G. Buchanan (development and regeneration of river systems of Mesopotamia).
Collection 425/1271 Part 2 ‘European War 1914: Reports on: (1) The Conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab River from the Port of Basra to the Persian Gulf; (2) The development of the Port of Basra by Sir George Buchanan’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning: appointments of personnel to the Irrigation Directorate in Mesopotamia [Iraq]; the proposed dredging of Hammer Lake [Lake Hammar]; river dredgers needed in Mesopotamia; and a request that river dredgers currently in Mesopotamia be returned to India. ...
Collection 425/1277 Remittances from prisoners of war (including Turkish medical personnel captured in Mesopotamia) in India to their relatives in Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Salonika, etc.