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‘Report for the Army Council on Mesopotamia. By Sir John P Hewett, GCSI, KBE’ [43v] (91/119)
The record is made up of 1 volume (53 folios, 5 maps). It was created in 1919. 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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(g) General.
The following are to be supplied with each pumping set:—
(1) One spare belt for each pumping set.
(2) Sufficient cement for all engine and pump foundations. If early information of the sets that
are under preparation to be sent out is telegraphed to Baghdad, the requirements in
cement can be worked out locally and telegraphed back. The cement should if possible
be sent out in advance of the pumping sets.
5. Each pumping set is to be thoroughly overhauled, erected and tested under actual working conditions
before being despatched from India, and a certificate with test sheets giving performance of each set forwarded
to Mesopotamia.
6. Foundation and general arrangements sketches of each pumping set should be prepared when sets
are arranged for and forwarded to enable foundations to be prepared.
7. Each pumping set is to be marked with distinctive marks to ensure that correct engines and pumps
are operated together.
APPENDIX XVII.
Office of the Revenue Board, Baghdad, Memorandum No. 8029, dated 28th April, 1918, to^ Lieut. Campbell
Rogers, Asst. Pol. Officer, Baghdad.
Subject. —Deputation of Lieut. Campbell Rogers, A.P.O.
Reference :—
1. You have been selected to represent the Administrator, A.D. Scheme, in Lidia in respect to the purchase
and despatch of pumping sets from India to Mesopotamia.
2. Your pay and allowances have been settled by direct reference to the Civil Commissioner.
3. You will proceed to Basrah and report to Col. Pitkeathley, C.V.O., who will give you instructions as
to all technical details, and you will enquire from Revenue Board, Basrah, the number of pumps required with
low lift and the number required with medium lift.
4. You will then proceed to India and report by wire to Chief of the General Staff wffio has already been
informed of your deputation, vide copies of correspondence forwarded to you under cover of Q/2137/25, dated
27th April. The Inspector-General of Irrigation in India has kindly given the letters of introduction which
have been handed to you.
5. In India you will be responsible to me that no pumps are sent out except such as are saleable in this
country, and to Col. Pitkeathley that the pumps are of a type in accordance with the instructions which he
will give you.
6. You will see that all pumps are shipped in cases properly marked, numbered and addressed Adminis
trator, Agricultural Department Scheme, c/o Embarkation, Basrah.
You will report by telegraph shipment noting whether the pumps are suitable for Basrah, Amarah or
Baghdad. Telegrams should be addressed Revenue, Baghdad, and repeated to Col. Pitkeathley.
7. At the close of your deputation you will submit a brief report.
(Signed) C. C. GARBETT,
Administrator, Agricultural Department Scheme.
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The volume contains an illustrated report, with maps, correspondence and statistical data included as appendices, for the Army Council on Mesopotamia [Iraq], prepared by Sir John Prescott Hewett for the War Office, dated 10 March 1919. The report focuses on: a) the administration and expenditure of agricultural and irrigation schemes put in place in Mesopotamia for 1918 and 1919, and administered by the Imperial Government; b) the extent to which expenditure on agriculture and irrigation schemes, charged against Imperial Army Funds, is necessary for the prosecution of war; c) infrastructure development in Mesopotamia (facilities at Basrah [Basra] port; railways; telegraphs, telephones and post; water supply; electrical and mechanical installations), and questions of their financial support through military and civil funds.
The appendices include: maps illustrating the scope and geographical detail of the agricultural and irrigation schemes; correspondence providing context into the circumstances surrounding the need for and implementation of the schemes; statistical data, including: irrigation scheme expenditure; capacity at Basrah port; valuation of the dockyard; admission rates for Indian troops and followers with scurvy for the years 1916, 1917 and 1918; valuation of telegraph apparatus, telephone lines.
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- 1 volume (53 folios, 5 maps)
- Arrangement
The report is divided into paragraphs numbered 1 through to 82, with paragraph subjects and page numbers provided in an index preceding the report (f 3v). A list of the appendices, numbered I through to XXVIII follows the report (f 35). Appendices I-IV are maps (ff 52-56), enclosed in the sleeve at the back of the volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 57; 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.
Pagination: the file contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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