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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Bank of Iran and the Middle East, 1889-1952 Place Basra, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/528
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 1 'German War: banks at Basra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other India Office papers relating to banks in Basra [Basrah or Bassorah or Busreh] during the First World War. It includes papers relating to: Whether or not Basra was classed as ‘enemy territory’, and whether the London Agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-31 May 1917
Extent:

1 volume (204 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/529
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Banks at Basra +c. - the Eastern Bank'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mostly related to the Eastern Bank being invited by the Secretary of State for India to open a branch at Basra and to conduct the banking business of the Government of India at Basra. It also includes papers relating to: the Eastern Bank offer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1915-23 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 volume (212 folios)