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File 4613/1919 Pt 7 'Mesopotamia: Land for Military Cantonments' [‎157r] (127/135)

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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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acquired under acquisition laws and also informed you that
the- Civil authorities would themselves he owners if the
Imperial Government would lend the money in the first
instance*
U. HINAIDI site is on the rail to the Persian line.
Tne LAURA site is only 1^- miles from the main BASRAH -
BAGHDAD line.
3 I would add that the Civil authorities have
decided to make their official station between BAGHDAD
and KIHAIDI and that it is intended to place the General
Of ficer Commanding-"in*Chief * s Headquarters in the Civil
Station*
1?* Work has been in progress since June on roads
and irrigation cuts and brick-making, and troops will
camp on these sites this Autumn.
16* As only £150*000 have been sanctioned for this work
no hospitals have been undertaken at present. The main
British hospital is in the Turkish Hospital at far extremity
of BAGHDAD City, while the Indian hospital is in temporary
huts* As soon as the future of Mesopotamia is settled
it will be necessary to commence a combined Hospital at
DAURA on modern lines to save several miles ferrying by
steamer that now goes on.
17. Further provision will be necessary to move
the Post Bellum Supply and Ordnance Depots, These at
present are occupying expensive sites on the river bank
4 miles from the new Cantonment at DAURA, and must be
moved from there as soon as the surplus Ordnance stores

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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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