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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, 1917-1920

51. 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)

52. IOR/L/PS/10/850/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/850/1
Title:
File 4673/1919 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- Visit to England of the son of the Sheikh of Bahrein + party. General arrangements + proceedings. Incidence of cost.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence regarding the visit of a Mission (deputation) consisting of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, son of Shaikh Isa of Bahrein [Bahrain], Abdullah’s son Muhammad, Abdullah’s Private Secretary Jasim Cheravi, and a personal servant, to the United Kingdom and Paris in 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1903-9 Jul 1928
Extent:

1 item (258 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/10/850/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/850/3
Title:
File 4673/1919 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Bahrein Mission to England 1919. Political business of Mission’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the visit of Mission (deputation) from Bahrein [Bahrain] to the United Kingdom in 1919. It includes correspondence regarding the reception of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, son of Shaikh Isa of Bahrein, and Abdullah’s son Muhammad-bin-Abdulla by King George...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1919-12 Aug 1920
Extent:

1 item (83 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/10/856/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/856/2
Title:
File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; India Office draft telegrams, draft letters and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1919-30 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 item (90 folios)

55. 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)

56. IOR/L/PS/10/868

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/868
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION. INCIDENCE OF COST; DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS REVENUES; CLAIMS OF THE OTTOMAN PUBLIC DEBT; STAMP DUTIES; CONTROL AND AUDIT OF EXPENDITURE’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, resolutions, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding different aspects of the administration in Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The incidence of cost of the temporary administration of Basra [also written in the correspondence as Basrah Wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1914-14 Nov 1918
Extent:
1 volume (288 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/10/869

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pts 2, 4, 5 and 6 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: FINANCE’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the financial affairs of the British administration in Mesopotamia. It consists of the following four parts: Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/869/1, located at ff 398-434) Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/869/2, located at ff 280-397) Part 5 (IOR/L/PS/10/869/3, located at ff 121-27...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1920
Extent:

1 volume (434 folios)

58. 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)

59. IOR/L/PS/10/880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/880
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 1-2 ‘Arabia: General Question of Subsidies to Arab Rulers. Subsidy to Ibn Saud’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to Arabia. Part 1 concerns the general question of subsidies paid to Arab Rulers, and Part 2 concerns the policy of the British Government towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, popularly known as Ibn Saud]. Each part include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1920-6 Apr 1925
Extent:

1 volume (284 folios)

60. 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)