File 4613/1919 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy. Land for Civil Cantonment.'

Content

This item consists of part five 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 proposed construction by the British authorities.

The part contains correspondence discussing a proposed new civil station and military cantonment, which would be located in the southern vicinity of Baghdad. Correspondents include the Acting Civil Commissioner in Baghdad (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson), the Officiating Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (Major-General George Fletcher MacMunn), and officials of 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. and the War Office.

Included with this part are several plans showing the layout of the proposed sites, as well as the layout of a proposed Baghdad railway.

Extent and format

1 item (22 folios)

It is part of

File 4613/1919 Pt 1-8 'IRAQ:- LAND TENURE.'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/847

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/847/5

Former external reference(s)

P 4613/1919 Pt 5

History of this record

Date(s)

12 Oct 1919-7 May 1920 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Military buildingsBuilding construction

Places

Baghdad

People & organisations

Commander of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary ForceWar OfficeCivil Commissioner, Mesopotamia

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