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'Field notes: Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917.' [150v] (309/350)
The record is made up of 1 file (169 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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their pay in the field to meet such ordinary
* advances as they may require to draw during
the following month. As a rough guide, it was
found by a staff officer (Brigade Major) at the
front that about Rs. 220 a month was sufficient
to cover local expenses including cash payments
to servants, messing, payments to Supply and
Transport for servants’ clothing and horse gear,
and cash for incidental expenses. Ordinary
advances against the balance of their pay remain
ing in the field may be drawn from the nearest
F. T. C. 0.
The following example shows how an officer may arrange
his pay and fix his allotment on this system :—
(Example.)
An officer’s available pay (after allowing for family
pension subscription in the case of an Indian
Army officer) is say .....
Deduct —
Amount he wishes to draw against as advances in
the field and for payment of extra rations,
etc., say .......
Rs.
600
150
Balance available for making an allotment pay
able monthly in England or in India . . 450
Special Note .—In making allotments it should be parti
cularly noted that an allotment is a definite fixed
sum and it is therefore not permissible for an officer
to ask for the balance of his pay to be remitted
monthly in lieu of fixing an allotment. If he does
not make a fixed allotment the balance of his pay
will remain to his credit in the field accounts and
can only be remitted once in about 3 months as an
accumulated balance, as explained in the following
paragraph.
(Hi) It is not necessary for an officer to draw in the field
his monthly available balance, as this balance will be carried
forward to his credit month by month by the D. D. O., who
will keep a ledger account of each officer. If after a few months
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The file consists of a printed volume regarding the field notes on Mesopotamia. The volume was prepared on behalf of the General Staff, India and printed by the Superintendent Government Printing, India.
The volume is divided into the following chapters:
- I. History.
- II. Geography.
- III. Population.
- IV. Resources.
- V. Notes on the Turkish Army.
- VI. Maritime.
- VII. Administration.
- VIII Communications; Routes in Mesopotamia.
The volume also contains a number of appendices: A. Important personages; B. Table of Distances (in miles); C. Weights, Measures, Currency, Chronology; D. Some notes for officers proceeding to Mesopotamia; Glossary of Terms.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (169 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in a number of chapters and appendices listed in the contents page (folio 4).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 169; 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 also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Field notes: Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, tail, front-i, 2r:143r, 143r:143v, 143v:170v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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