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IOR/L/PS/10/847/7
- Record Id:
- 041-000546119
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000287.0x0001a5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061385609.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/847/7
- Title:
- File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments'
- Scope & Content:
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This item consists of part seven of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to arrangements for a proposed British military cantonment in the vicinity of Baghdad.
The correspondence discusses the selection and purchase of suitable land, particularly the question of whether the land should be purchased by the British civil administration or by the War Office. Also discussed more generally is the provision of barrack accommodation in Mesopotamia and Palestine.
Correspondents include the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson), the Secretary of State for India (Edwin Samuel Montagu), the Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (Major-General George Fletcher MacMunn in an officiating capacity, succeeded by General James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane), and officials of the Foreign Office, the India Office, the War Office, and the Treasury.
Included with this part is a plan showing the present and proposed railway layout for Baghdad.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000546112
041-000546119 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/847 : File 4613/1919 Pt 1-8 'IRAQ:- LAND TENURE.'
IOR/L/PS/10/847/7 : File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments' - Contains:
- IOR/W/L/PS/10/847 (iii) : MESOPOTAMIAN RAILWAYS PLAN SHEWING PRESENT & PROPOSED RAILWAY LAY OUT FOR BAGHDAD
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/847/7 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0848]/040-000546112[0007]/041-000546119
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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1 item (65 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100061385609.0x000002
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1919
- End Date:
- 1920
- Date Range:
- 10 Oct 1919-18 Nov 1920
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- P 4613/1919 Pt 7
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)