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

21. IOR/L/PS/10/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/481
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 4 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and in the Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire (Iraq), during the First World War. The main focus is the Turkish action in Persia, and the British intrigues to maintain control over Persia, preventing the country from entering the war and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 Jan 1915-13 May 1915
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/10/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/482
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 5 'German War: Persia; situation in Arabistan 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in southern Persia and in the territories of the Shatt al-Arab, during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of oilfields. The volume covers: The Arab movement in Mesopotamia. Possible despatch of troops to the Kārun river and to Ahwaz [A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1915-26 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/10/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 4-6 'The War: Banking Arrangements in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to banking arrangements, mainly in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It consists of three parts: Part 4 contains papers relating to the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Mesopotamia, mostly concerning the Baghdad branch. Part 5 contains papers relating to the extension of banking f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1921
Extent:
1 volume (354 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/10/532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/532
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 1 ‘German War:- Turkey. Prisoners’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to British prisoners of war in Baghdad, detained in the wake of the commencement of hostilities between Britain and Turkey in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: the status of British subjects including British Indians in Baghdad; reports of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Dec 1914-31 Dec 1915
Extent:
1 volume (217 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/10/533

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/533
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 3 ‘German War:- Turkey. Payments to British subjects in Turkish territory &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the advance of financial relief to British Indians stranded in Baghdad and elsewhere in Ottoman territory, in the wake of Britain’s invasion of Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: proposals for funds to be forwarded to and distributed by the United States Con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1922
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/10/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/534
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jan 1916-5 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/10/557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/557
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 3-4 ‘IRAQ & PERSIA. OIL’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject ‘IRAQ & PERSIA. OIL’. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/557/1) concerns a dispute between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Government of Persia [Iran] over royalty payments and compensation for damage done to oil pipelines. Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/5...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1924
Extent:

1 volume (334 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/10/565

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/565
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 2 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc., of goods by Turks’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning trade in those parts of Mesopotamia [Iraq] under British military administration during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and traders at Basra; claims by British firms for the losses of goods looted or dest...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Mar 1915-30 May 1918
Extent:

1 volume (241 folios)