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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/10 Name Commander of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1914-1920 Place Mesopotamia, Asia Minor

1. IOR/L/PS/10/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/534
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jan 1916-5 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/742
Title:
File 2447/1918 'Antiquities Mesopotamia: Preservation of Historical Ruins. (Campbell Thomson and Hall Collection of Antiques)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the preservation of ruins of historical interest in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the First World War. The papers notably cover the following: Arrangements for British specialists and archaeologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1918-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (336 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/763
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 11 'Mesopotamia: Administration. Appointment of Sir P. Cox as High Commissioner. [His Instructions, Announcement in the Press].'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of drafts and copies of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to the appointment of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox as High Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The following matters are covered within the volume: Discussion over the wording of a public announcement to be m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1920-25 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/874
Title:
File 7512/1919 ‘MESOPOTAMIA – LEVIES’
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of papers relating to the Arab and Kurdish Levies in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers include correspondence from the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia at Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this volume), Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, to the India Office, mostl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1919-14 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 volume (181 folios)