'File 8/18 Iraq: Review of Events, 1933'

Content

The file contains an intelligence report and analysis of events and affairs in Iraq during the year 1933, produced by British Air Headquarters at Hinaidi, Iraq. The report is written by Wing Commander John L Vachell of Air Staff Intelligence.

The report is divided into five main sections relating to a different subject. Each of these is further divided into sub-sections with a different focus, as follows:

• Section I - Political and Social: Home Politics; Social and Economic;
• Section II - Internal Security: Northern Iraq; Central and Southern Iraq;
• Section III - Industries and Resources: General Survey; Oil; Civil Aviation; The Desert Route;
• Section IV - Army and Air Forces: Iraq Army; Royal Iraq Air Force;
• Section V - Foreign Relations: Turkey; Persia; Saudi Arabia; Palestine; Syria.

Extent and format

1 file (24 folios)

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 28; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

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/R/15/2/321

Former external reference(s)

8/18

History of this record

Date(s)

Jan 1934 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Reports

Places

Iraq

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'File 8/18 Iraq: Review of Events, 1933', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/2/321, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000150> [accessed 6 October 2024]

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