WAR DIARY
ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA.
(F. S. R., part II, Section 140) and Staff Mnual,War, Section.
I.E.F. (D.)
Volume 64
Part I.
(From 1st to 15th ovember 1919.) [1]
The British Library: Private Papers and Records from the India Office
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Force
Indian D Infantry (also known as Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force) 1–15
November 1919. Attached to the volume are appendices containing copies and extracts from these papers, including telegrams
and tables.
There is a table of contents for this volume on folios 1-2. The volume deals with the following:
• Military personnel matters, including demobilization, leave and reinforcements
• Disposition of surplus animals
• A discussion about Britain's withdrawal from Syria and Anatolia, and the continuation of the British occupation of Mesopotamia
(Including the Wilayat of Mosul) and Palestine
• Proposal to transfer British officers from Force D to fill vacancies in the cadres of the Indian Army
• Kurds killed British officers near Aqrah
• Establishment of railways in Mesopotamia
• A proposal to form an “Assyrian force under Britain” by recruiting Assyrian refugees in southern Russia.
• Establishment of an intelligence service, based in Tehran, to monitor Bolshevik activities in the Caspian Sea region
• Coordination of intelligence networks in Persia [Iran], Kurdistan and Azerbaijan.