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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947 Place Basra, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/462
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning diplomatic tensions between the British and Ottoman Governments at the outset of the First World War, including social unrest and military/naval movements in Baghdad, Basra, and the Shatt al-Arab. The volume’s papers were produced prior to the Ottoman Ruler Sultan Mehmed V’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1914-25 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/513
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 1 'Basra administration'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the civil administration of Basra and its environs after its takeover by British forces during the First World War, such as the city's police force. Other topics covered in the papers include the importation of Indian Staff for the new administration, the sup...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:
1 file 281 (folios)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B245
Title:
Extracts of Communications relating to the Permanent British Occupation of Basra
Scope & Content:
The item contains extracts from a letter, telegrams and a note, covering the period November 1914 to December 1916, and all relating to the permanent British Occupation of Basra: Extract from a letter from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox to Persian Gulf and other Chiefs, including the Sheikh of Mohamerr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B256
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIA ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
Copies of Telegrams between the Viceroy (Frederic Thesiger, The Lord Chelmsford), Secretary of State (Austen Chamberlain) and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the future administration of Mesopotamia, March to April 1917: Telegram P 1234 from Viceroy, Foreign Department, 26 March 1917: regarding the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-Apr 1917
Extent:

3 folios