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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, 1917-1920

41. IOR/L/PS/10/833/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/3
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 3 ‘MESOPOTAMIA KURDISTAN The AQRAH Incident: Murder of Messrs Bill & Scott’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to a violent incident during which two individuals, J H Bill, Indian Civil Service, Political Officer, Mosul, and Captain K R Scott, 31st Punjabis, Indian Army, Assistant Political Officer, Aqrah [also spelled Akra and Aqra in this item], were killed ‘near Birza Kapra in Zab Val...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1919-10 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 item (86 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/10/833/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/4
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 4 ‘Mesopotamia: The Telafar Outrage’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to an attack on the town of Telafar [Tell Afar; also spelled Tal Afar in the item] in early June 1919, allegedly by members of the Shammar Jarba tribe, which resulted in the killing of all Government officials there including: Major J E Barlow, the Political Officer; Lieutenant ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1920-17 Nov 1920
Extent:
1 item (56 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/10/839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/839
Title:
File 3467/1919 'MESOPOTAMIA POLICE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains weekly police reports from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Baghdad, covering events in Iraq [sometimes referred to in the volume as Mesopotamia] under British occupation in 1919-20, including during the Iraqi Revolt. The reports contain intelligence about the movements ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1919-4 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (639 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/10/843

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/843
Title:
File 4006/1919 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers mostly relating to the visit, as state guests, of a deputation (Mission) from Koweit [Kuwait], including Sheikh Ahmad bin Jabar [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], the heir to the Emir of Koweit [Kuwait], and a deputation (Mission) from Najd (Nejd), including Faisal ibn ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1919-28 Mar 1924
Extent:

1 volume (428 folios)

45. IOR/L/PS/10/844

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/844
Title:
File 4326/1919 'Persia: the Shah's visit to Europe 1919-20'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department Minute and Draft papers containing draft letters, draft telegrams and internal notes; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India (wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Jul 1919-28 Aug 1924
Extent:
1 volume (262 folios)

46. IOR/L/PS/10/845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/845
Title:
File 4368/1919 'IRAQ:- ANTIQUITIES LISBON COLLECTION'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises: correspondence; India Office Political and Secret Department Minutes and Draft Papers; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India (with enclosures); and reports. The file relates to British involvement i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1919-17 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (164 folios)

47. IOR/L/PS/10/847/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/1
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part one of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and particularly relates to the sale, leasing or granting of land to persons other than domiciled inhabitants of the territories (e.g....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1917-16 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 item (48 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/10/847/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/2
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 2 'Mesopotamia:- Land Policy. Messrs Sassoon's dealings in land at Basra.'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part two of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and particularly relates to the registration of land purchases. The correspondence is mainly concerned with a request from E D Sassoo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1918-22 Jan 1919
Extent:

1 item (16 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/10/847/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/3
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia:- Land Policy. Messrs Weir's purchase of sites at Basra.'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part three of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to Andrew Weir and Company's efforts to purchase two properties in Basrah (also referred to as Busreh in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1919-22 Apr 1920
Extent:

1 item (23 folios)

50. IOR/L/PS/10/847/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/5
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy. Land for Civil Cantonment.'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part five of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to proposed construction by the British authorities. The part contains correspondence discussing a propose...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1919-7 May 1920
Extent:

1 item (22 folios)