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21. 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)

22. 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)

23. IOR/L/PS/10/531/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531/1
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 4 'Mesopotamia: Imperial Ottoman Bank, Baghdad Branch'
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence and India Office Minute Papers relating to the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Mesopotamia [Iraq], mainly concerning the Baghdad branch. It includes papers regarding: The decision of the British Government, on the recommendation of local British political authoritie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1917-3 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 item (210 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/10/531/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531/2
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Banking Facilities'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to banking facilities in the occupied (by the British) territory of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers consist of correspondence, and India Office Minute Papers and internal notes. The file includes papers relating to: the views of the Government of India and the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1918-3 Aug 1920
Extent:
1 item (63 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/10/535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/535
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 5 ‘German War – Turkey; Turkish & Arab prisoners in India – Sayyid Talib, &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Ottoman government officials who were detained as prisoners of war by the British occupying force (Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’) at Basra in late November 1914, and sent to India for the duration of the war. The majority of the papers concern two prisoners (Seyyid Talib Bey ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1920
Extent:

1 volume (223 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/10/547/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547/2
Title:
File 1093/1915 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- Proposed revival of British Consulate at Basra. Portuguese interests in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the proposed re-appointment of a British Consul at Basra, and how the new post should be funded. Subjects covered include: whether the Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] could also be appointed Consul at Basra (the two places being in close geographica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1922-20 Jun 1929
Extent:

1 item (164 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/10/564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/564
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 1 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc. of goods by Turks.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the status of cargo consignments held at Basra, Mesopotamia, for export to Britain, during the British invasion of Turkish Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The file includes: discussion as to whether consignments of cargo that are on their way from...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1914-23 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 volume (198 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/10/565

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/565
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 2 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc., of goods by Turks’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning trade in those parts of Mesopotamia [Iraq] under British military administration during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and traders at Basra; claims by British firms for the losses of goods looted or dest...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Mar 1915-30 May 1918
Extent:

1 volume (241 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/10/570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/570
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 7 ‘Mesopotamia; Baghdad Trade &c (Miscellaneous)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning foreign trade in Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after Britain’s military invasion during the First World War. The papers cover: various enquiries from businesses in England and elsewhere (the Netherlands, the United States of America) about trade wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918-1919
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/10/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/596
Title:
File 1889/1916 ‘Mesopotamia; Export of dates’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the export of dates from Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of Mesopotamia in the First World War. The file includes: correspondence dated 1916 relating to the lifting of a general prohibition on the export of dates from Mohammerah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 May 1916-9 Sep 1920
Extent:

1 volume (350 folios)