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61. IOR/L/PS/10/869/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/1
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 2: ‘MESOPOTAMIA: FINANCE. Demarcation of responsibility between military and civil authorities’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams and minutes regarding civil administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the demarcation of financial responsibility between local military and civil authorities. The papers notably cover: Financial responsibility of the Civil Commissioner i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1919-25 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 item (36 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/10/869/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/2
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: FINANCE. FINANCIAL CONTROL (1919 – papers) AND MISCELLANOUS QUESTIONS’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and minutes regarding civil administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers notably cover: The appointment of a new financial secretary for Mesopotamia Division of powers between military and civil powers within th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1919-19 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 item (117 folios)

63. 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)

64. 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)

65. IOR/L/PS/10/913/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/913/2
Title:
MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF BAGHDADI OFFICERS & FAMILIES FROM SYRIA
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume is concerned with the repatriation expenses of Mesopotamian [Iraqi] officers expelled from Syria, and their families [based in Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem] who are unable to make their own arrangement to return to Iraq. In particular, it is concerned with: the number o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1920-19 Sep 1921
Extent:

1 item (159 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/10/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/919
Title:
File 5876/1920 ‘Mesopotamia:- King for. Question of suitability of Feisul; French protest against Feisul; Feisul proclaimed “King of Iraq”; Treaty with Feisul’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the election of Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Faisal and other variations in the volume] as King of Iraq, and negotiations leading to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922. Specific topics discussed include:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1920-1 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (497 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/10/937/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/937/2
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 3 'Arabia: Situation and Policy; Agenda for Inter Departmental Committee Meetings'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Transjordan, Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 item (133 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1, f 201

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1, f 201
Title:
‘Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf & Arabian Coast’
Scope & Content:
The map shows the south-eastern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. It indicates Indo-European overland and submarine telegraph lines, and roads, and includes brief descriptions of topography. The map bears the inscriptions ‘War Office, March, 1905’ and ‘Topographical Section, General Staff, No....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1905
Extent:
1 map

69. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1, f 212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1, f 212
Title:
‘Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf & Arabian Coast’
Scope & Content:
This map of the Persian Gulf and Arabian coast shows hypothetical boundaries, Indo-European overland and submarine telegraph lines, and roads. It includes hydrology and brief descriptions of topology. Relief is indicated by spot heights. It bears the imprints ‘I.D.W.O. No. 1569’ and ‘Intell[ig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1901
Extent:
1 map

70. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1, f 213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1, f 213
Title:
‘Persia and Afghanistan’
Scope & Content:
The map shows Persia and Afghanistan, and those parts of the surrounding countries which border Persia and Afghanistan. It includes a table of reference which indicates how features including the following are shown on the map: railways (including those under construction or projected), roads,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1912
Extent:
1 map