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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Admiralty, 1708-1964

1. IOR/L/MIL/7/3660

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/3660
Title:
Collection 80/218 ‘R.I.N. Arrangements for policing of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a proposed transfer of responsibility for the policing of the Persian Gulf from the Royal Navy to the Government of India. It includes discussion of an objection made by the Admiralty to the employment of Royal Indian Navy vessels for this duty. The A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1935-Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/17371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/17371
Title:
Collection 425/214 ‘European War 1914-: Rewards for meritorious service in the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence dated 9 February 1915 to 16 April 1919. The correspondence concerns recommendations for rewards and promotions for British and Indian military and naval personnel serving in Mesopotamia [Iraq], southern Persia [Iran], and the Persian Gulf in the First World War....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1915-16 Apr 1916
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/52
Title:
Vocabularies: English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, Syriac'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains vocabularies for the following languages: English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, and Syriac. It was published in London and was compiled by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office during the First World War...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1917
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/15
Title:
A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919
Scope & Content:
Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor, Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).' 'Contents. Chapters: I. Bound...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:
1 volume (365 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/17
Title:
A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)
Scope & Content:
Copy of 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe, prepared on behalf of the Admiralty, Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, January 1917.' The volume contains thirteen photographic plates (folios 99-106) and a map (folio 171). Contents (folio 6): Section I I. Boundaries and Physical Features, p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (170 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/32
Title:
File 869/1904 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa & Aden'
Scope & Content:
This volume is the first of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The several correspondents include officials at the Foreign Office, the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Jul 1902-22 Dec 1906
Extent:

1 volume (286 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/33
Title:
File 869/1904 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
Scope & Content:
This volume is the second of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The volume contains copies of ‘The Somaliland Registration of Vessels ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Oct 1902-23 Dec 1908
Extent:

1 volume (266 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/34
Title:
File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
Scope & Content:
This volume is the third of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The main correspondents are ministers and officials at the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/82
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 2 'Bahrain: status; British protection of Bahrainis; Persian claim to sovereignty'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, and minutes relating to the question over the status of subjects of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates) when in Persia and Turkish Arabia. The correspondence is mostly between the India Office and the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1905-Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)