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1. IOR/L/MIL/5/283

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/283
Title:
Prize and Batta Rolls: Persia 1856-1857
Scope & Content:
The volume contains nominal rolls of British and EIC [East India Company] troops’ unpaid shares, called battas (ff 21-46, ff 49-99, f 101, and ff 160-128) with copies of related correspondence. The troops were involved in a Persian expedition conducted by the EIC, and the related correspondence ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1860-20 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/284
Title:
Prize and Batta Rolls: Persia 1856-1857
Scope & Content:
The volume contains nominal rolls of the Bombay Marine’s unpaid or unadjusted shares for Persia and Mooltan [Multan] with copies of correspondence. The Rolls (ff 7-31, ff 38-39) also list personnel and vessels Principal correspondents include the Government of India’s Military Auditory General a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1855-9 Aug 1875
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/5/419 Coll 355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/419 Coll 355
Title:
Collection 355. Suggestions for the prevention of cholera
Scope & Content:
Suggestions for the prevention of cholera among troops on the march in India, by Maj Hubert Marshall, 33rd Madras NI, originally published at Madras as two letters to the Spectator, with an essay by Surgeon James Kellie, Madras Army, 'remarks' of the press, and extracts from private letters
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 file

4. IOR/L/MIL/5/512

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/512
Title:
Copy correspondence between the East India Company Court and the War Office on supplying field telegraph equipment to the forces in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copy correspondence between James Melvill, Secretary, East India Company, with the War Office, regarding procurement of two field telegraphs for shipment to Bombay and transmission to Bushire, the Headquarters of the Expedition force in the Persian Gulf (also spelled Gulph), u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1856-16 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/5/741

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/741
Title:
'British Garrison of India after the War'
Scope & Content:
This file includes minutes and correspondence on the Interdepartmental Conference to discuss post-war extended service in India or Mesopotamia. Topics discussed include rates of pay, payments of bounties, furlough, and passages for family members. The file includes a printed minute 'Military De...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1918-10 Oct 1918
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

6. IOR/L/MIL/5/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/768
Title:
PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM
Scope & Content:
This file contains working drafts of confidential prints, correspondence and telegrams from the room of Sir Edmund Barrow, Military Secretary in the India Office, collected for the Mesopotamian Commission which was convened to examine the causes of the besieging and surrender of the Indian Exped...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1918
Extent:
1 file (687 folios)

7. IOR/L/MIL/5/769

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/769
Title:
Report of Mesopotamia Commission
Scope & Content:
Correspondence consists of commentary by officials of the India Office on the Report of the Mesopotamia Commission under a range of topics including the placing of orders for river transport. Correspondents include the War Office; the Secretary of State for India; and the Director of Inland Wat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1917-Dec 1918
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/MIL/5/771

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/771
Title:
Marine Transport in Mesopotamia 1916
Scope & Content:
The file consists primarily of correspondence between Commander A Hamilton of the Marine Transport Department, Mesopotamia [Iraq], officials of the War Office and General Sir Edmund Barrow, Military Secretary to the India Office, regarding the Marine Transport Department in Mesopotamia, during th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1916-12 July 1916
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

10. IOR/L/MIL/5/772

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/772
Title:
Marine Transport in Mesopotamia 1916-1917
Scope & Content:
The file consists of copies of telegrams regarding different aspects of marine transport in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The main discussion is regarding the construction, reconstruction and re-erection of craft, vessels and barges in Mesopotamia and their personnel related to the Mesopotamia Mission. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1916-30 Apr 1917
Extent:
1 file (1024 folios)

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