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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name War Cabinet, Middle East Committee, 1917-1918 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/769

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/769
Title:
Report of Mesopotamia Commission
Scope & Content:
Correspondence consists of commentary by officials of the India Office on the Report of the Mesopotamia Commission under a range of topics including the placing of orders for river transport. Correspondents include the War Office; the Secretary of State for India; and the Director of Inland Wat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1917-Dec 1918
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/770

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/770
Title:
Minutes of the Mesopotamia Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
The file comprises the Minutes of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth meetings of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee held between May and July 1917. The minutes consider the administrative structure in post-war Mesopotamia and staffing of the High Commission. It also considers British an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1917-6 July 1917
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/389/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/389/1
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 7 'Arabia: Policy toward Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
Part 7 primarily concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. It includes discussion as to whether Britain should provide Bin Saud with military assistance to enable him to take...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1918-7 Aug 1918
Extent:

1 item (206 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/666

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/666
Title:
File 978/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration; occupation of Baghdad; the proclamation; Sir P Cox's position'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding negotiations and administration, largely between the India Office, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, and the Government of India, after the occupation of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad) on 10 March 1917. The negotiations con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1917-8 Oct 1919
Extent:

1 volume (195 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B255
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIAN ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE. DRAFT REPORT OF COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
The draft report of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee containing recommendations made by the committee. These recommendations include: The occupied territories of Mesopotamia being administered in the future by His Majesty's Government and not by the Government of India; The Basra Vilay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B257

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B257
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
Table giving abstracts of proposals made by the War Cabinet, with comments on those proposals by Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and the Government of India. The proposals include: Occupied territories being administered by His Majesty's Government, instead of the Government of India Basra to remain un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917
Extent:

2 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B260
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Note by Sir James Meston, KCSI, on the future system of government at Baghdad.
Scope & Content:
In this note, Sir James Meston, the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, contests the idea that Baghdad should be brought under British control in any way. Meston warns that trying to control the area, particularly any Holy Places, would likely offend the Muslim populati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1917
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B261
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Sir P Cox's position.
Scope & Content:
This collection of telegrams relate to the professional differences between Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer, and General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. In the telegrams, Cox requests to be given more influence in his role or to be released from his duties. The b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917-Jun 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

10. Mss Eur F112/272

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/272
Title:
Papers of the Mesopotamian Administration (later Middle East) Committee
Scope & Content:
This file mostly consists of minutes of meetings of the War Cabinet's Mesopotamian Administration Committee (later renamed the Middle East Committee), chaired by George Curzon. The papers are chiefly concerned with current and future British policy in Mesopotamia, which during the period cover...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1917-12 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 file (39 folios)