High commissioner
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High commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.
The Tanzanian High Commission in London. Tanzania and the United Kingdom are both members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Mandatory Iraq
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The Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration, or Mandatory Iraq, was created in 1921 after the 1920 Iraqi Revolt against the proposed British Mandate of Mesopotamia and was enacted via the 1922 An
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…Fridtjof Nansen The Mandatory Iraq high commissioners – After Ottoman Iraq was conquered by British forces, the mandate territory had four incumbents, after a single civilian Administrator…
Coronation of Faisal as King of Iraq, who is seated. To his right are British High Commissioner Sir Percy Cox and Lieutenant Kinahan Cornwallis and to his is the left commander-in-chief of all British troops in the Mesopotamia Commander General Aylmer Haldane.
Mandatory Iraq, 1921. Remembrance flag of the coronation of King Faisal I
A photograph of British and Iraqi dignitaries in Baghdad from 1923 during the era of Mandatory Iraq. From second left to right in the front row, Kinahan Cornwallis, Sassoon Eskell, and Gertrude Bell. Bernard Henry Bourdillon stands directly behind Bell in the second row.
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