IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3326

The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 31 September 1919. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, which include: letters, telegrams, notes, reports, tables, and memoranda.

An index to the contents of this volume can be found at folios 3-6. The volume concerns:

• A claim by Cherif Pasha [Mehmet Şerif Pāshā] to have been elected head of a future Kurdish State
• Responses to allegations of extravagance and wastage in Mesopotamia
• Provision of medical officers in Mesopotamia
• Permission for Salar-ed-Dowlah [Abu’l-Fatḥ Mīrzā Qājār, Sālār al-Dawlah] to go to Constantinople [Istanbul]
• The situation in Kurdistan
• Preparations for a flight to the Far East by Italian aeroplanes
• Troop movements and reinforcements
• Accommodation in Mesopotamia for officers’ families
• Surplus of medical supplies to be shipped to Egypt
• The provision of howitzers
• Freight charges between India and Mesopotamia
• Sanctioned and unsanctioned railway construction
• Export of animals from Mesopotamia to India
• Troops willing to extend their service
• Demobilisation of Indian troops.

The following tables appear:

• Return for wastage of animals and statement of animals with Force D on 25 May 1919 (ff 30-33), 29 June 1919 (f 35)
• Monthly distribution report of motor vehicles on 1 July 1919 (ff 53-68), 1 June 1919 (ff 70-85)
• Suggested war establishment, including personnel, stores, and equipment for: combined field ambulance (ff 87-105); combined sanitary section (ff 106-112); a motor ambulance convoy (ff 112-114); hospitals and hospital ships (ff 114-197)
• Statement of animal transport on 26 June 1919 (ff 204-206), July 1919 (ff 213-215)
• Distribution of Force D on 1 September 1919 (ff 231-241).