File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’

Title:

File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’

Contributor:

Foreign Office (correspondent)
United States Federal Government (correspondent)
Government of the Ottoman Empire (correspondent)
Commander of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force (correspondent)

Date:

1916/1917

Description:

Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British invasion of Mesopotamia. The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 94/1915 Pt 1 ‘German War:- Turkey. Prisoners’ (IOR/L/PS/10/532). The file covers: reports of the release and deportation to Mosul of the remaining British women and children held at Baghdad; the decision to extradite these women and children to Beirut and the Mediterranean, rather than down the river Tigris to the Persian Gulf; requests from the Ottoman Government for information of a number of Turkish officials and their families detained at Amara; lists of British and Turkish prisoners of war to be exchanged by both sides; the General Officer Commanding at Basra’s objections to the repatriation of some Turkish officials from Basra.Several items in the volume (correspondence from the Ottoman Government and the Comité Internationale de la Croix-Rouge) are in French.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.1 volume (239 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.The subject 94 (German War: Turkey) consists of 4 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/532-535. The volumes are divided into 4 parts, with each part comprising one volume (1, 3, 4 and 5). There is no part 2.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 239; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English
French

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Prisoners of War
First World War (1914-1918)
Mesopotamian Campaign (1914-1918)

Geographic region:

Mesopotamia
Baghdad

Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Open Government Licence
Copyright or data protection restrictions

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0001ad_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0001ad_en
IOR/L/PS/10/534

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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