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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Commander of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1914-1920

11. IOR/L/PS/10/666

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/666
Title:
File 978/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration; occupation of Baghdad; the proclamation; Sir P Cox's position'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding negotiations and administration, largely between the India Office, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, and the Government of India, after the occupation of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad) on 10 March 1917. The negotiations con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1917-8 Oct 1919
Extent:

1 volume (195 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/667

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/667
Title:
File 978/1917 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia and Persia: occupation of Baghdad; protection of holy places'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the protection of Shiah Holy Places and Persian subjects by the British Government after the occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Related matters of discussion include the following: the situation in d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Mar 1917-2 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 volume (199 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/687/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/687/2
Title:
File 2678/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: financial arrangements; rouble exchange'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the financing, by the British Government, of the Imperial Russian Army in Persia [Iran], particularly the difficulties in the acquisition of currency to pay troops, and policy developments concerning the role of Russian forces in Britain’s military and polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1917-26 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 item (165 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/735/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/735/1
Title:
File 1000/1918 Pt 3 'Persia: situation & policy'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence regarding affairs in Persia [Iran] in May-November 1918 during the First World War, including: Military actions within Persia, particularly those in northern Persia involving Dunsterforce, the Allied military force commanded by General Lionel Dunsterville The resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1918-10 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/742
Title:
File 2447/1918 'Antiquities Mesopotamia: Preservation of Historical Ruins. (Campbell Thomson and Hall Collection of Antiques)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the preservation of ruins of historical interest in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the First World War. The papers notably cover the following: Arrangements for British specialists and archaeologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1918-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (336 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/763
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 11 'Mesopotamia: Administration. Appointment of Sir P. Cox as High Commissioner. [His Instructions, Announcement in the Press].'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of drafts and copies of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to the appointment of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox as High Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The following matters are covered within the volume: Discussion over the wording of a public announcement to be m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1920-25 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/773
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: refugee camp at Baqubah (1918-1919 papers)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British and French officials regarding the Christian (mostly Assyrian) refugees in the refugee camp at Ba’qubah [also written Baqubah] in Mesopotamia, and their possible repatri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1918-29 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (256 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/10/833/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/1
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1919-22 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/10/833/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/2
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 2, ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Amadia Incident’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to a violent incident on 14 July 1919 in Amadia [Amadiya], central Kurdistan, during which Captain D Willey and Lieutenant Hamish MacDonald, both of the 13th Hussars, were killed by ‘local gendarmes’ (f 200) and other officers and civilians injured. The papers notably cover and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-19 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/10/847/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/1
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part one of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and particularly relates to the sale, leasing or granting of land to persons other than domiciled inhabitants of the territories (e.g....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1917-16 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 item (48 folios)