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

101. IOR/L/PS/18/B283

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B283
Title:
Eastern Committee. Mesopotamia: Civil Administration
Scope & Content:
This printed report, compiled by John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the Political Department, India Office, for the Eastern Committee, concerns the civil administration of Mesopotamia between 15 November 1917 and 15 January 1918. It consists of summaries of the first five periodical administrative report...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 volume (4 folios)

102. IOR/L/PS/18/B284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B284
Title:
Eastern Committee. The future of Mesopotamia. (Note by Sir Percy Cox.)
Scope & Content:
This note was written by Major-General Percy Zachariah Cox in April 1918 in his capacity as Civil Commissioner, Baghdad. It consists of two main parts. The first part deals with the premises for British policy, namely, the proclamation issued on British arrival in Baghdad, that they had come to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

103. IOR/L/PS/18/B285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B285
Title:
The Baghdad Railway Negotiations
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a copy of an article reprinted for private circulation from the The Quarterly Review of October 1917 concerning the Baghdad Railway negotiations. The purpose of the article is to trace the development of railway interests in Turkey and seek to focus the situation in wh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1917
Extent:

16 folios, including 1 map

104. IOR/L/PS/18/B289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B289
Title:
'Administration of Mesopotamia. Fortnightly Report by the Civil Commissioner, No. 17 (1st - 15th July [1918])
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a fortnightly administrative report (No 17) submitted by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, covering the period 1 to 15 July 1918. The report is split into four sections: (I) Administrative, which includes District Organisation, Revenue Board, Irrigat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1918
Extent:

3 folios

105. IOR/L/PS/18/B290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B290
Title:
Administration of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum is a note by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Political Department of the India Office, dated 21 Oct 1918, concerning the British administration of Mesopotamia, the status of the vilayets of Basra and Baghdad, and the establishment of a commission from London to research administrative pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1918
Extent:

2 folios

106. IOR/L/PS/18/B291

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B291
Title:
Political Service in the Middle East
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, dated 25 October 1918, is a note by the India Office concerning a War Office memorandum of 21 October 1918 (E.C. 2042). It concerns political service in the Middle East in the context of the First World War and defines responsibility for the administration of Mesopotamia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1918
Extent:

5 folios

107. IOR/L/PS/18/B294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B294
Title:
Disposal of conquered territories [Mesopotamia and German East Africa]. Note by India Office
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum comprising of a note by the India Office, dated 28 October 1918, concerning the disposal of conquered territories in relation to Mesopotamia [Iraq] and German East Africa [modern-day Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika] in the context of the First World War. The memorandum...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1918
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/18/B297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B297
Title:
Policy in Arabia
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a note, dated 20 November 1918, by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel of the India Office concerning British policy in Arabia. The note discusses 'The Status of the King of the Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]' and 'The Status of Iraq', and largely focuses on British interes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios

109. IOR/L/PS/18/B299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B299
Title:
'B 299. Mesopotamia. Note on Demobilisation by Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.'
Scope & Content:
Note on demobilisation by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (enclosed in letter to the India Office, No 20517, dated 28 September 1918). The note gives details on the two areas that demobilisation would need to cover, namely the repatriation of the fighting force and the transfe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1918
Extent:

4 folios

110. IOR/L/PS/18/B304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B304
Title:
British Desiderata in Regard to the Baghdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This confidential memorandum, signed R V, concerns Britain's policy with regards to the Baghdad Railway following the occupation of the Mesopotamia. The memorandum details two variant policies: (1) regarding the Railway not as private property, but as a Turkish State railway, and that all its ass...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918?
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)