Record

Ref NoLKE/MESC
TitleLKE MESC: Middle East Supply Centre
DescriptionThe MESC series consists of three boxes of records documenting Leonard Elmhirst's wartime work (1942-1943) as Agricultural Adviser to the Middle East Supply Centre. Surviving records include: minutes; correspondence with organisations; reports on aspects of agriculture (including machinery, crops, cultivation, irrigation, supplies, rations of oils and fats, and education); diary notes and ephemera. The material, which includes Leonard Elmhirst's reports and notes, offer a broad survey of the industrial and agricultural resources of Egypt; Iraq; Palestine; Turkey; Persia; Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon; Hadramaut, Yemen and Transjordan; East Africa and Sudan. This resulted in an official report, 'Agricultural Report No 5, Middle East Supply Centre' by L K Elmhirst, Anglo-American Agricultural Mission, Jul-Nov 1942. This report includes references to postwar reconstruction. Publications also include Jewish and Zionist printed matter.
Date1938-1956
SubjectAgriculture
Middle East
World War II
Food supply
FormatManuscript
Person_CodeDS/UK/980
Place_CodeNA503
NA493
NA510
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/980Middle East Supply Centre (MESC); c1940sc1940s
Places
CodeSet
NA503Iraq
NA493Palestine/Moledeth/Israel
NA510Yemen/Hadramaut
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