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51. IOR/L/PS/10/847/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/7
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part seven 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 arrangements for a proposed British military cantonment in the vicinity of Baghdad. The correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1919-18 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 item (65 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/10/869/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/3
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 5 ‘Mesopotamia: Finance. BUDGETS (1918-19, 1919-20)’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and minutes regarding financial budgets for the British administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers notably cover: Estimates of receipts and expenditure The budget for the civil administration in Mesopotamia State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1918-8 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 item (158 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/10/962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/962
Title:
File 301/1921 'MESOPOTAMIA: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Intelligence Reports of Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [also written as Iraq in this volume], based in Baghdad, covering the period 15 November 1920 to 15 September 1921. They largely relate to: the political situation in Mesopotamia and the surrounding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1920-31 Oct 1921
Extent:
1 volume (289 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/12/336

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/336
Title:
PZ 1030/40 'Documents of Historical Interest among Consular Archives. Baghdad Consular Archives'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to wartime transfers from Iraq to India for the safe keeping of the records of the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and Consul-General at Baghdad, 1756-1917, and also those of the High Commissioner for Iraq at Baghdad, a post established in 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1929-5 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/1987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1987
Title:
Coll 5/35 ‘Iraq: Civil aviation in: Opening of airports at Bagdad and Magil’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the establishment of new civil airports at Baghdad (1933) and Basra (1934), and subsequent additions to these facilities. It also contains copies of a number of notices to airmen issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Communications and Works: see folios 5-8 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1930-4 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/2039

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2039
Title:
Coll 5/77 ‘Muscat: including activities of U.S. Air Force and Pan-American Airways in the Middle East’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the operations of Pan American Airlines in the Middle East; British officials were concerned that the airline was using the war as a pretext for commercial penetration of British controlled territories. The file therefore covers the militarisation of Pan American Airli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1941-19 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/18/B24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B24
Title:
Memorandum
Scope & Content:
A memorandum with a cover note, in which the Political Resident and Consul General at Baghdad, Trevor John Chichele Plowden, writes to the Political Secretary, India Office, Sir Owen Tudor Burne, suggesting that clarification be sought from the Turkish Porte regarding their permission for the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1883-8 Mar 1883
Extent:

3 folios

58. IOR/L/PS/18/B97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B97
Title:
'MEMOIR on the Climate and Diseases of Southern Turkish Arabia by Surgeon-Major J. Hyslop, M.D.'
Scope & Content:
The Memoir, written by Surgeon-Major James McAdam Hyslop, commences by describing the location, physical geography and conditions of Mohamreh [Khorramshahr] and Busreh [Basra] before going on to describe the climate; fevers that might be suffered there; and known outbreaks of cholera. Also inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/18/B220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B220
Title:
‘Advance to Baghdad – Political Considerations. Note by Political Department, India Office.’
Scope & Content:
Note written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Assistant Secretary of the Political Department, India Office, on the political and strategic importance that would be associated with British forces taking Baghdad, and the likely political and strategic injury that the British would incur should they fai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1915
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

60. IOR/L/PS/18/B236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B236
Title:
Statement [on the expedition to Mesopotamia] by Political Secretary, India Office
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, marked 'Secret' is a statement by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, Political Secretary, India Office, dated 30 August 1916, concerning the British campaign against Turkey in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the context of the First World War, in particular British intentions to advance...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)