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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Mesopotamia, Asia Minor

91. IOR/L/PS/18/B246

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B246
Title:
'FUTURE ADMINISTRATION OF MESOPOTAMIA'
Scope & Content:
The item consists of: Extract from Lord Chelmsford (Frederick John Napier Thesiger)'s private letter of 18 October 1916: regarding the Government of India's existing responsibilities in relation to Mesopotamia; the likelihood of those responsibilities increasing; whether it might be possible to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

92. 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)

93. 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)

94. IOR/L/PS/18/B256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B256
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIA ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
Copies of Telegrams between the Viceroy (Frederic Thesiger, The Lord Chelmsford), Secretary of State (Austen Chamberlain) and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the future administration of Mesopotamia, March to April 1917: Telegram P 1234 from Viceroy, Foreign Department, 26 March 1917: regarding the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-Apr 1917
Extent:

3 folios

95. 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

96. IOR/L/PS/18/B259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B259
Title:
Correspondence between Britain, France and Russia in regards to Arabia
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, in English and French, between M Sazanof, Ministre des Affaires Étrangeres (Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs); Maurice Paléologue, Ambassadeur de France en Russie (French Ambassador to Russia); Paul Cambon (French Amabassador to the United Kingdom); and Sir Edward Gray, Secre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Apr 1917
Extent:

10 folios

97. IOR/L/PS/18/B268

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B268
Title:
Employment of Japanese Troops in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum addressed to the War Cabinet by the Political Department of the India Office on the question of the employment of Japanese troops in Mesopotamia. It summarises the Government of India's views given in a telegram dated 21 November 1917, with military and politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1917-18 Dec 1917
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

98. IOR/L/PS/18/B273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B273
Title:
Middle East Committee. Mesopotamia: British Engagements as to future Status
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a report by the Political Department, India Office, dated 30 January 1918, concerning British engagements as to the future status of Mesopotamia. It is divided into two sections containing extracts from various correspondence and sources. The first section concerns ple...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios

99. IOR/L/PS/18/B275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B275
Title:
Middle East Committee. Mesopotamia Trade Report
Scope & Content:
This is a printed note prepared by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Political Department of the India Office, dated 6 February 1918, concerning trade in Mesopotamia vis-à-vis consolidating Britain's commercial interests in light of Robert Erskine Holland and John Henry Wilson's 1917 report, The Prospects ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1918
Extent:

4 folios

100. IOR/L/PS/18/B281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B281
Title:
Future of Mesopotamia. Note by Political Department, India Office, on points for discussion with Sir P Cox
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a note by the Political Department of the India Office, dated 3 April 1918, concerning points to be discussed with Sir Percy Zachariah Cox regarding the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The note is divided into three sections: the first concerns 'Policy of H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1918
Extent:

3 folios