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QUERIPEL, Col Leslie Herbert (1881-1963)

  • QUERIPEL
  • Collection
  • 1917

Copies of papers relating to his military service, 1898-1945, dated 1917 and [1945], comprising a letter to his wife describing the fall of Baghdad, 10 Mar 1917, and subsequent conditions in the city, dated 16-17 March 1917; official Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force General HQ 'Despatch on operations', 28 Aug 1916-31 Mar 1917, dated Apr 1917; summary of his military service, 1898-1945, written in [1945].

Queripel, Leslie Herbert, 1881-1963, Colonel

MARSHALL, Lt Gen Sir William Raine (1865-1939)

  • MARSHALL
  • Collection
  • 1915-1919

Letters from Marshall to his brother, John Eden Marshall (1864-1937), the Hon Mr Justice Marshall, Judge in Egyptian Court of Appeal, written throughout World War One, including chatty, if brief, descriptions of his service in Gallipoli, Salonika and Mesopotamia, where he became Commander in Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in Nov 1917, 1915-1919. The great bulk of the letters are therefore written from Mesopotamia, 1916-1919, and include Marshall's descriptions of the second Battle of Kut el Amara, Dec 1916; the advance to and the fall of Baghdad, Mar 1917, with impressions of the city; the Battle of Band-i-Adhaim, 30 Apr 1917; the building of railways and improvement of communications along the British front line; commentary on the progress of the war on the Western, Eastern and Southern fronts; commentary on the progress of the British forces under Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby on the Palestine front, 1917-1919; the clearance of Jebel Hamrin and the River Diyala, Mesopotamia, Oct 1917; the 'Dunsterforce' operation in Persia, 1918; the advance up the Euphrates and the taking of Hit and Khan Baghdadi, Mar-May 1918; the final offensive on the Tigris, Oct-Nov 1918, culminating in the signing of an armistice with the Turks on 30 Oct, 1918.

Marshall, Sir William Raine, 1865-1939, Knight, Lieutenant General

DOWSON, Valentine Hugh Wilfred (1896-1980)

  • DOWSON
  • Collection
  • 1915-1944

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.

Dowson, Valentine Hugh Wilfred, 1896-1980, Army Intelligence Officer and authority on date cultivation