Temporary Indian Army Appointments: Note on procedure for temporary appointments, lists of officers selected for one year appointments
Scope & Content:
lists of one year officers joining the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Expeditionary Forces, lists of three year appointments to the Supply & Transport Corps, lists of temporary appointments demobilized in the UK or sent to India for demobilization, lists of temporary and Indian Army Reserve of Of...
Despatch by H.E. Gen Sir C.C. Monro, C-in-C in India, on the work of the army in India and of the civil departments of the government of India in connection with the war. Simla: GSI, 1918.
The file contains correspondence regarding the Mesopotamia Campaign of the First World War during May-December 1917. The correspondence discusses strategy, provisioning and recruitment. It is particularly concerned with a perceived unreliability as allies of Russian forces in Mesopotamia [Iraq]....
The file contains correspondence regarding congestion at the port of Basra during the First World War, and suggestions for increasing capacity and improving efficiency. The primary correspondents are: the Commander-in-Chief, India; the General Officer Commanding, Mesopotamia; and the War Office.
