IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Misc 20
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: Maps of Mesopotamia published by the Survey of India, World War One
Date(s): 1915-1918
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 14 items
Name of creator(s): Survey of India
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Survey of India was created in 1767 to map the territory covered by the British East India Company. From the 1880s onwards it produced maps of land further west in the Middle East, covering Persia (Iran), Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Arabia (Gulf States). Revised maps of Mesopotamia were produced for the Allied military campaign, World War One, with some uncharted regions left blank.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Twelve published maps of Mesopotamia, titled 'Turkey in Asia', produced by the Survey of India, 1915-1917, showing an area from Baghdad in the north west to Basra (Basrah) and the border with Iran (Persia) in the south east, scale 1 inch to 4 miles, many areas marked 'unsurveyed'. Also two maps produced by 'the Compilation Section GHQ', 1918, of the town of Najaf (An-Najaf) scale 6 inches to 1 mile, and of the area around the town of Mosul, scale 1 inch to 4 miles.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronologically arranged
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.
Finding aids:
This summary guide
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased by the Centre, 2013
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 2013