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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name War Cabinet, Middle East Committee, 1917-1918

1. IOR/L/PS/10/389/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/389/1
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 7 'Arabia: Policy toward Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
Part 7 primarily concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. It includes discussion as to whether Britain should provide Bin Saud with military assistance to enable him to take...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1918-7 Aug 1918
Extent:

1 item (206 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/686
Title:
File 2571/1917 'MESOPOTAMIA: FUTURE ADMINISTRATION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-10 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B254

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B254
Title:
MESOPOTAMIAN ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE. Report of Sub-Committee appointed under paragraph 17 of the minutes of 21st March 1917.
Scope & Content:
The report details the investigation undertaken by the sub-committee in looking at the division of work between the Indian and Mesopotamian services, and sources of recruitment for the latter. The recommendations based on the report comprise: The limits of the Bagdad Vilayet and the question of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B255
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIAN ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE. DRAFT REPORT OF COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
The draft report of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee containing recommendations made by the committee. These recommendations include: The occupied territories of Mesopotamia being administered in the future by His Majesty's Government and not by the Government of India; The Basra Vilay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B257

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B257
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee
Scope & Content:
Table giving abstracts of proposals made by the War Cabinet, with comments on those proposals by Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and the Government of India. The proposals include: Occupied territories being administered by His Majesty's Government, instead of the Government of India Basra to remain un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917
Extent:

2 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B260
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Note by Sir James Meston, KCSI, on the future system of government at Baghdad.
Scope & Content:
In this note, Sir James Meston, the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, contests the idea that Baghdad should be brought under British control in any way. Meston warns that trying to control the area, particularly any Holy Places, would likely offend the Muslim populati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1917
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B261
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Sir P Cox's position.
Scope & Content:
This collection of telegrams relate to the professional differences between Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer, and General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. In the telegrams, Cox requests to be given more influence in his role or to be released from his duties. The b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917-Jun 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)