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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Commander of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1914-1920

41. IOR/L/PS/10/773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/773
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: refugee camp at Baqubah (1918-1919 papers)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British and French officials regarding the Christian (mostly Assyrian) refugees in the refugee camp at Ba’qubah [also written Baqubah] in Mesopotamia, and their possible repatri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1918-29 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (256 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/10/833/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/1
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1919-22 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/10/833/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/2
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 2, ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Amadia Incident’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to a violent incident on 14 July 1919 in Amadia [Amadiya], central Kurdistan, during which Captain D Willey and Lieutenant Hamish MacDonald, both of the 13th Hussars, were killed by ‘local gendarmes’ (f 200) and other officers and civilians injured. The papers notably cover and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-19 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)

44. 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)

45. 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)

46. IOR/L/PS/10/847/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/7
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part seven 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 arrangements for a proposed British military cantonment in the vicinity of Baghdad. The correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1919-18 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 item (65 folios)

47. IOR/L/PS/10/847/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/8
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 8 'MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION: LAND ACQUISITION OF LAND AT MAGIL: INCIDENCE OF COST'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part eight 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 the acquisition of land by the British for military purposes. The part is largely concerned with the a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Aug 1917-7 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 item (93 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/10/874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/874
Title:
File 7512/1919 ‘MESOPOTAMIA – LEVIES’
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of papers relating to the Arab and Kurdish Levies in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers include correspondence from the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia at Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this volume), Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, to the India Office, mostl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1919-14 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 volume (181 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/18/C179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C179
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Proposed extension of Quetta-Nushki-Dalbandin railway.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the Government of India's proposed extension of the Quetta-Nushki-Dalbandin railway westwards to Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh]. It consists of the following: five telegrams between the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger] and the Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Mon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1917-18 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

50. Mss Eur F112/256

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/256
Title:
Mesopotamia: Papers relating to the future administration of Mesopotamia for the Committee over which I presided, 1917-1919
Scope & Content:
File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the Mesopotamia Administration Committee, collected by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Lord President of the Council, who chaired the Committee. The papers cover a variety of topics relating to the administration of Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1916-3 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)