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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name War Office, 1857-1964

171. 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)

172. IOR/L/PS/10/858

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/858
Title:
File 5238/1919 'Persia:- Mohammerah. Gift of guns and river steamers to the Sheikh of Mohammerah'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the process of sending gifts to the Sheikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah, now known as Khorramshahr, also written in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1918-6 May 1927
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)

173. IOR/L/PS/10/859

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/859
Title:
File 5257/1919 'Persia: the Military Commission'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding military affairs in Persia [Iran]. Related matters of discussion include the following: appointment and nomination of administrative officers, mainl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-19 May 1922
Extent:
1 volume (258 folios)

174. IOR/L/PS/10/869/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/1
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 2: ‘MESOPOTAMIA: FINANCE. Demarcation of responsibility between military and civil authorities’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams and minutes regarding civil administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the demarcation of financial responsibility between local military and civil authorities. The papers notably cover: Financial responsibility of the Civil Commissioner i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1919-25 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 item (36 folios)

175. IOR/L/PS/10/869/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/2
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: FINANCE. FINANCIAL CONTROL (1919 – papers) AND MISCELLANOUS QUESTIONS’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and minutes regarding civil administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers notably cover: The appointment of a new financial secretary for Mesopotamia Division of powers between military and civil powers within th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1919-19 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 item (117 folios)

176. 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)

177. IOR/L/PS/10/891

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/891
Title:
File 1913/1920 'Mesopotamia and Palestine: rent of billets in occupation of military; liability of Mesopotamian state for cost of military forces'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence regarding the use of billets by British military forces and civil officials in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the years following the end of the First World War. Topics discussed include: Efforts to vacate and release as many billets as possible as a way to appease anti-Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1919-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (130 folios)

178. IOR/L/PS/10/913/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/913/2
Title:
MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF BAGHDADI OFFICERS & FAMILIES FROM SYRIA
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume is concerned with the repatriation expenses of Mesopotamian [Iraqi] officers expelled from Syria, and their families [based in Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem] who are unable to make their own arrangement to return to Iraq. In particular, it is concerned with: the number o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1920-19 Sep 1921
Extent:

1 item (159 folios)

179. IOR/L/PS/10/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/919
Title:
File 5876/1920 ‘Mesopotamia:- King for. Question of suitability of Feisul; French protest against Feisul; Feisul proclaimed “King of Iraq”; Treaty with Feisul’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the election of Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Faisal and other variations in the volume] as King of Iraq, and negotiations leading to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922. Specific topics discussed include:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1920-1 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (497 folios)

180. IOR/L/PS/10/937/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/937/2
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 3 'Arabia: Situation and Policy; Agenda for Inter Departmental Committee Meetings'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Transjordan, Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 item (133 folios)