| Date: | 01-Nov-1918 |
| Title: | Kuwait Post Office Administered by Iraq |
| Comments: | In June, July, and August 1918 Lt. Col. H.A. Sams (Director of Postal Services, MesopotamianExpeditionary Force, later Director-General of the Posts and Telegraphs of India) proposed to Mr. G.R.Clarke (Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs of India) that Kuwait (and Mohammerah) were more easily supervised as part of the Civil Posts of Iraq than as part of the Indian Posts and Telegraphs. Mr.Clarke supported the idea, and the Government of India gave its approval in November 1918, with the stipulation that Indian stamps should be used (rather than stamps overprinted Iraq in British Occupation). However the absorption of the Kuwait P.O. into the Iraqi system does not appear to have been completed until August 1921. We are left with the question of what happened for nearly three years. |
