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'PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM' [599r] (1209/1386)
The record is made up of 1 file (687 folios). It was created in 1915-1918. 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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it too rigidly. r t vrould ?.l3o soea adviHablo that we should keep
in viow the main prinolples which have ^mided the military admini
siration of the Greet ^owers so far as they do not conflict with
the British system. 7 v c viceroy is already the Kin^s repre-
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•-iicntative, constitfitionelly the head of the Army in India arid no
change in this resrect. need he considered. The next stage in the
official military hierarchy is the Commander-in-Chief but I am
of opinion t v at by the force of circumstances he has aleaady
divested himself of the prooer attributes of a Commandor-in-Chief.
Ho is no longer the personal, active and visible Tar Lord,
(Jangi Lat Sahib) but is already to all intents and purposes a
h’ar Minister and this fact may 3ust es well be recognised. It
is I think essential that the ?'ar Minister in Indi a should be a
soldier though he is not s at home. The 7’ar Minister should, a?
as et home, be assisted by an Army Council consisting of: —
The Chief of the General Staff
The Adjutant General
The Quartermaster General end
A Commissary General , for supply and transport business
The latter would be a new appointment hich has no exact parallel
at home, but is to my mind a very necessary one in India where
supply, at all events, is a very complicate, btsiness, demanding
special training. As the Abolition of t e Commander-in-Chief
somewhat enhances the status of the Army Council, I think it is
necessary to raise the emoluments of the second, third and fourth
\
members. They now get 2500
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
a month which is the pay of a
Major General commanding a Brigade. It would be only reasohable
to raise the pay to He 3000 # which indeed was the pay of the
Adjutant General till it was cut down to meet the cost of the
Chief of the General Staff. That process might I think be reverse
and the pay of the Chief of t he General Staff ra a nC Qd from its
present e cessive rate of Hs 4500.
In addition to the Army Council there should be at Army
Headquarters an Inspector General of the iorces whose duty it
would be to see that the training of the forces in India should
be co-ordinated and on the same general lines as at ho? e. V*ith
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This file contains working drafts of confidential prints, correspondence and telegrams from the room of Sir Edmund Barrow, Military Secretary in 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. , collected for the Mesopotamian Commission which was convened to examine the causes of the besieging and surrender of the Indian Expeditionary Force in Kut-el-Amara [Al Kūt].
The papers cover a range of topics and include the following: General Townshend's assessment of the situation after the Battle of Kut-el-Amara; a précis of correspondence relating to the origins and development of the Mesopotamia expedition; and a collection (ff 396-399) of private telegrams between the Secretary of State for India and the Viceroy, prior to the outbreak of war with Turkey.
The file also includes some tables showing the strength of General Townshend's force at Ctesiphon (folio 111) as well as the Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' (In Mesopotamia) Troops of the 6th Poona Division (folio 114).
Correspondents include: General Sir John Nixon; Major-General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend; the Viceroy of India; officials of the Admiralty; officials of the War Office.
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- 1 file (687 folios)
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The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 686; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Multiple additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences are present in parallel; these numbers are written in crayon and pencil; where they are written in pencil and circled, they are crossed through.
The file has one foliation anomaly, f 374A.
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- Title
- 'PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:89v, 91r:107v, 109r:130v, 131ar, 131r:134v, 135ar, 135ar, 135r:136v, 137ar, 137r:203v, 204ar, 204r:225r, 225ar, 225v:295v, 296ar, 296r:316v, 317ar, 317r:374v, 374ar:374av, 375r:405v, 406ar, 406r:562r, 562ar, 562v:623v, 624ar, 624r:686v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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