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032-000256868 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Mesopotamian Campaign (1914-1918)

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/778

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/778
Title:
Mesopotamia. Local Resources.
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and memoranda concerning the administration of local resources in Mesopotamia by the British military authorities, 1917-19. The main correspondents are: the War Office; Commander-in-Chief (C in C), India; and General Officer Commanding (GOC), Mesopotamia. Subjects c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1916-27 Jul 1919
Extent:
1 file (96 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/775

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/775
Title:
Papers concerning the Treatment of British Prisoners of War at Kut
Scope & Content:
The papers consist of reports and associated correspondence concerning the treatment of British prisoners of war from the British garrison at Kut [Kut Al-Amarah], following its surrender to Ottoman Turkish forces on 29 April 1916. The papers include a typescript memorandum (folios 3-28), issued...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1916-15 Nov 1916
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72
Title:
Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917
Scope & Content:
The volume is Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917. Compiled by officers of the Staff College, Quetta, October-November 1923 (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1925). The volumes consist of 'Part 1 - Report' [IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/1] and 'Part 2 - Maps' [IOR/MIL/17/15/7...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

2 volumes, 2 items (233 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/5/795

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/795
Title:
Order of Battle Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force 1- 3-20 with correction slips
Scope & Content:
Memoranda issued by General Officer Commanding/General Headquarters, Mesopotamia (all duplicated to Commander-in-Chief, India), to the War Office, listing the detailed corrections to be inserted into the Order of Battle of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, covering the period 9 October 1920-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1919-29 Nov 1921
Extent:
1 file (115 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/76
Title:
Short memorandum on the inception, difficulties and results of the Mesopotamian Campaign
Scope & Content:
This file is a printed report consisting of a memorandum on the inception, difficulties and results of the Mesopotamia Campaign, printed by the General Staff, India (Simla, 1916). It gives details about the present situation in Mesopotamia, Indian troops, and difficulties in terms of the politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/51
Title:
Who's who in Mesopotamia, General Staff, India (Serial No.22)
Scope & Content:
The volume is Who's Who in Mesopotamia, General Staff, India. The volume is marked confidential and was printed in Delhi by Superintendent Government Printing, India, in 1916. The volume consists of an alphabetical list of individuals issued by the Intelligence Branch of the Indian Expeditionar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 file (136 folios)

7. IOR/L/MIL/5/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/768
Title:
PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM
Scope & Content:
This file contains working drafts of confidential prints, correspondence and telegrams from the room of Sir Edmund Barrow, Military Secretary in the India Office, collected for the Mesopotamian Commission which was convened to examine the causes of the besieging and surrender of the Indian Exped...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1918
Extent:
1 file (687 folios)

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73
Title:
Naval Staff monographs (historical) vol 4 no 15 - Naval operations in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This monograph concerns operations in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf from the outbreak of war with Germany to the fall of Kut on 29th April 1916. It is organised into the following chapters: the theatre of operations; the attitutude of Turkey; the inception of the expedition; landing of the ex...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:

73 folios

9. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/66
Title:
HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918.
Scope & Content:
An official government publication in four volumes compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volumes were printed and published at His Majesty's Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1927
Extent:

4 volumes (1075 folios)

10. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/98
Title:
'Report from General Sir J. E. Nixon, K.C.B., Commanding I.E.F. "D." on the Operations at Dilwar 10th-16th August 1915'
Scope & Content:
This confidential report is published by the General Staff, India, and consists of a letter from General Sir John Eccles Nixon, Commanding Indian Expeditionary Force D, to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, and encloses a report by Major C E H Wintle, 96th Berar Infantry, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)