Bound volume of weekly intelligence reports by Valentine Hugh Wilfred Dowson, Basra, 1 Jan - 23 Dec 1944, including comment on: Iraqi politics and political appointments, propaganda, Iraqi economics, commodity prices, attitudes towards Britain, exports and supplies. Reference material relating to Iraq and the Middle East comprising: Extract from the geographical and statistical gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia (Superintendent, Government Printing, India, 1915); Brief notes on tribes of the Tigris below Kut', Government Press, Simla, 1917; Extract from the Persian Gulf Gazetteer (Superintendent, Government Printing, India, 1917);
Administrative report, Amarah Division', 1918; Administrative report of the Muntafiq Division', 1919;
Review of the civil administration of Mesopotamia', 1920; Personalities: Iraq (exclusive of Baghdad and Kadhimain)', nd [c 1922];
Military report on Mesopotamia (Iraq), area 1 (Northern Jazirah)', General Staff, British Forces in Iraq, 1922; Military report on Iraq, area 2 (Upper Euphrates)', General Staff, British Forces in Iraq, 1922;
Military report on Mesopotamia (Iraq), area 7 (Tigris)', General Staff, British Forces in Iraq, 1923; Military report on Mesopotamia (Iraq), area 8 (Western Kurdistan)', General Staff, British Forces in Iraq, 1923;
Personalities: Mosul, Arbil, Kirkuk, Sulaimani and frontiers. Note on Mosul Town', Government Press, Baghdad, 1923; Military report on Arabistan', 1923;
Military report on Iraq, Chapter 3: population', Sep 1933; A gazetteer of the place names which appear in the small scale maps of Palestine and Transjordan, Departments of Lands and Surveys, Government of Palestine, nd [c 1935]; Military report on Iraq, Vol 2 (routes)', Air Ministry, 1936;
Military report on Iraq, Vol 1 (general)', Air Ministry, 1941; MT routes in Syria, Vol 2', GHQ Middle East Forces, Feb 1942;
MT routes in Iraq, Vols 1 and 2', GHQ PAIFORCE, 1943; Iraq: index gazetteer', PAIFORCE, Baghdad, 1943;
Iraq and the Persian Gulf', Naval Intelligence Division, 1944. Copies of the King-Hall Newsletter, 1936-1944.
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