The file contains memoranda, with some correspondence and copy telegrams, relating to the supply of horses, mules and ponies for the cavalry, infantry and artillery in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (the supply of animals for the Mesopotamia Campaign was undertaken by the Government of India). Notably cove...
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...
The file contains telegrams and memoranda concerning the administration of local resources in Mesopotamia by the British military authorities, 1917-19. The main correspondents are: the War Office; Commander-in-Chief (C in C), India; and General Officer Commanding (GOC), Mesopotamia. Subjects c...
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 355. Suggestions for the prevention of cholera
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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
Minutes of the Mesopotamia Administration Committee
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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...
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...
The file contains a draft report from the War Office Committee on Mesopotamia [Iraq], chaired by Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh, Adjutant-General to the Forces. The report considers the establishment of an Imperial Mesopotamian Police or the raising of ‘troops for special permanent serv...
