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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name War Cabinet, Eastern Committee, 1918-1919 Place Mesopotamia, Asia Minor

1. IOR/L/PS/10/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/686
Title:
File 2571/1917 'MESOPOTAMIA: FUTURE ADMINISTRATION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-10 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

2. Mss Eur F112/257

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/257
Title:
Memoranda Relating to Departmental Views on the Conduct of the War in the East and the Administration of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file comprises typescript, printed and manuscript memoranda, dated 1918 and 1920 by: Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India; Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (up to October 1919); Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office; and Forei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1918-24 Aug 1920
Extent:

1 file (58 folios)

3. Mss Eur F112/273

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/273
Title:
Middle East Committee and Eastern Committee
Scope & Content:
This file relates to two War Cabinet committees: the Middle East Committee (originally named the Mesopotamian Administration Committee), and the Eastern Committee, both chaired by George Curzon. The first half of the file consists almost entirely of printed minutes of meetings of the Middle Eas...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1918-31 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (21 folios)