Collection MISC20 - MESOPOTAMIA MAPS, WORLD WAR ONE

Key Information

Reference code

MISC20

Title

MESOPOTAMIA MAPS, WORLD WAR ONE

Date(s)

  • 1915-1918 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

14 items

Scope and content

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.

System of arrangement

Chrologically arranged

General Information

Custodial history

Purchased by the Centre, 2013

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, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

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Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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