The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
The volume contains two parts (items): IOR/L/PS/10/687/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/687/2. Both parts consist of papers relating to financial arrangements for the acquisition of currency for the payment, by the British Government, of Russian troops in Persia [Iran], and the associated difficulties and iss...
This file chiefly comprises: correspondence; India Office Political and Secret Department Minutes, Draft Papers and Draft Telegrams; copies of letters and telegrams; notes and memoranda; and reports. The file relates mainly to the discussions regarding the disposal of antiquities from Samarra [...
File 2834/1917 Pt 1 'PERSIA: SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES STATUS &c'
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The volume contains papers relating to the South Persia Rifles, including its organisation, costs, control, role and status. The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Viceroy (Government of India), Foreign Department, Finance Department, and Army Department; th...
The volume contains papers relating to expenditure on the South Persia Rifles and its dissolution in 1921. The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Viceroy (Government of India), Foreign Department (later Foreign and Political Department), and Finance Departm...
The volume relates to the opposition of the Government of India to paying half the expense of maintaining the South Persia Rifles, and the disbandment of the unit in 1921. It comprises two parts as follows: IOR/L/PS/10/692/1: Part 3, ‘PERSIA: - SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS’ (ff 186...
File 3000/1917 Mesopotamia: foreign consular representation; proposed appointment of a French consular officer at Baghdad; Italian consular officer at Baghdad