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'Mesopotamia. Commission' [39r] (80/256)
The record is made up of 1 file (126 folios). It was created in 1914-1916. 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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F»m Vic eray to Secretary of State for India
Dated 3rd June 1915.
H. 5304. Your telegram of the 26th ultimo Bo 1864.
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*.he station hospital at Colaba is equiped according to
to regulation but much additional equipment for officers
and menhas been provided through the
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of funds
local and others. arrangement s were made some months
ago for the provision of electric fans and light but
the supply has been delayed owing to shortages of materiial
?he number of ”X n Ray apparatus available for military
Portable
use in India is at uresent limited to one set per division
the rest having been sent overseas fresh supplies
indented for not having been received from home, fhe
sixth divisional apparatus with the specialist is sent
to Bombay when convoys of wounded are expected and in
addition use can be made of the apparatus in the
civil hospitals. Director Medical Services will visit
Colaba within a week and the gist of his report will be
telegraphed * to you•
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The file contains proofs of official prints required for the statutory commission on the Mesopotamian Expedition [the Mesopotamia Commission, 1916-17]. The papers include transcripts of telegrams and letters (some paraphrased) from the Secretary of State for India, the Viceroy, and the Commander of the Expeditionary Force, 1915-16, General Sir John Eccles Nixon. The file includes papers relating to operations in 1914-15, medical arrangements on the expedition (folios 33-60), press allegations concerning the advance from Kut-el-Amara [Kut Al-Amarah] in 1916 (folios 91-93), and the question of occupying Baghdad (folios 31-32).
The papers are enclosed an a folder inscribed on the front cover: 'Military Department. Previous Papers', and labelled '3'. A further label on the front cover is printed 'Mesopotamia Commission, 28 Abingdon Street, Westminster.'
- Extent and format
- 1 file (126 folios)
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 127; 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: there are five additional printed pagination sequences in parallel between ff 64-90, ff 91-93, ff 94-103, ff 109-177, and ff 120-126.
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- IOR/L/MIL/5/777
- Title
- 'Mesopotamia. Commission'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:15v, 19r:127v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence