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File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments' [135r] (83/135)
The record is made up of 1 item (65 folios). It was created in 10 Oct 1919-18 Nov 1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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reference your Q/4048 of January 31st.
T enclose herewith'*copy of a memo, from the Revenue
from the Land Acquisition Officer
Secretary giving covepr to a report
A r
which provides the information required by the War Office
The G.Q,C-in-Chief is,I believe,aware that I am
personally opposed to the selection of the Daurah site
as a Cantonment and am of opinion that for the present
Land Acquisition should be restricted to the Hinaidi
site.
The views which Iput forward to Sir George MacMunn
which did not meet with his acceptance at the time were
to the effect that we should not keep our Central -
Garrison in this country at Baghdad but in the neighbour-
-hood of Qizil Robat which has the following advantages:-
(1) The Railway Junction for the Kurdistan Area.
(2) Close proximity to the Persian Hills.
(3) Good water supply,land costs nothing,fine
gravel soil and minimum expenditure on roads.
Proximity to area from which building stone
and cement can be obtained.
These views have,I believe,not found acceptance,
but in the event of H.M f s Government calling upon this
Office for an expression of opinion upon the subject,
I should feel bound to put forward these views.
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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 department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the War Office, and the Treasury.
Included with this part is a plan showing the present and proposed railway layout for Baghdad.
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- File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments'
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- 95r:117v, 118ar:118av, 118r:159v, 159ar:159av, 160r
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