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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, 1917-1920

1. IOR/L/PS/18/B317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B317
Title:
Mesopotamia: Future Constitution
Scope & Content:
This printed report consists of a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, dated 6 April 1919, to the Secretary of State for India, concerning the future constitution of Mesopotamia. There are also fifteen enclosures, some accompanied by appendices. These ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B326

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B326
Title:
Mesopotamia: land policy. Draft notification
Scope & Content:
This file contains a draft notification by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson dated 27 June 1919. The notification relates to land policy in Mesopotamia and seeks to provide 'conditions upon which permission to lease agricultural land in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia may be given t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1919
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B319

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B319
Title:
Mesopotamia: customs tariff
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from Louis Mallet, British Ambassador at Constantinople, to Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary for the Political Department of the India Office, dated 15 April 1919. It also contains a memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, the Civil Commissioner i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15-16 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/821

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 1-13 ‘MESPOT:- DIVL. & MUNICPL. COUNCILS.’
Scope & Content:
The volume relates to negotiations surrounding the formation of new administrative districts and the composition of ruling authorities, divided into either municipal or divisional councils, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Discussions follow on from the capitulatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1918-17 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 4-6 'The War: Banking Arrangements in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to banking arrangements, mainly in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It consists of three parts: Part 4 contains papers relating to the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Mesopotamia, mostly concerning the Baghdad branch. Part 5 contains papers relating to the extension of banking f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1921
Extent:
1 volume (354 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/815

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/815
Title:
File 1450/1919 ‘Mesopotamia & Kurdistan: Geological Reports on’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and maps and geological drawings, regarding the geological examination of regions in Mesopotamia and the prospect of petroleum [oil] in these areas. Included in the volume are the following reports: ‘MESOPOTAMIA GEOLOGICAL REPOR...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1917-26 Jun 1922
Extent:

1 volume (244 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/756
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of and situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the Agreement of 1916 between the French and British governments and the self-determination of Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The arg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1919-6 Aug 1920
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B299
Title:
'B 299. Mesopotamia. Note on Demobilisation by Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.'
Scope & Content:
Note on demobilisation by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (enclosed in letter to the India Office, No 20517, dated 28 September 1918). The note gives details on the two areas that demobilisation would need to cover, namely the repatriation of the fighting force and the transfe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1918
Extent:

4 folios

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B320

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B320
Title:
The Use of Aeroplanes in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This printed report consists of a note prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Officiating Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, concerning the use of aeroplanes in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. The note consists of two parts: the first covers South-West Persia and the second Mesopotamia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/775/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/775/1
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: Refugee Camp at Baqubah: – Progress Reports and Parliamentary Questions'
Scope & Content:
This part contains mainly parliamentary questions, memoranda and progress reports regarding the refugee camp at Baqubah [also written Ba’qubah, Ba’quba and Baquba] in Mesopotamia [approximately corresponding to present-day Iraq] during 1920. Also included are correspondence, telegrams and minute...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1919-23 Nov 1920
Extent:
1 item (165 folios)