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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Commander of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1914-1920

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/650/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/650/1
Title:
File 464/1917 Pt 1 'German War - Persia. Bushire hinterland operations'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to military operations in the hinterland of Bushire [Bushehr] in Persia [Iran], mainly concerning the advisability and practicability of more active operations, with regard to the season and the force available. It consists of correspondence, as well as India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1916-6 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 item (80 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/742
Title:
File 2447/1918 'Antiquities Mesopotamia: Preservation of Historical Ruins. (Campbell Thomson and Hall Collection of Antiques)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the preservation of ruins of historical interest in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the First World War. The papers notably cover the following: Arrangements for British specialists and archaeologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1918-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (336 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/534
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jan 1916-5 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/763
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 11 'Mesopotamia: Administration. Appointment of Sir P. Cox as High Commissioner. [His Instructions, Announcement in the Press].'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of drafts and copies of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to the appointment of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox as High Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The following matters are covered within the volume: Discussion over the wording of a public announcement to be m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1920-25 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/687/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/687/2
Title:
File 2678/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: financial arrangements; rouble exchange'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the financing, by the British Government, of the Imperial Russian Army in Persia [Iran], particularly the difficulties in the acquisition of currency to pay troops, and policy developments concerning the role of Russian forces in Britain’s military and polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1917-26 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 item (165 folios)