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1. IOR/L/MAR/C/891

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/891
Title:
'Miscellaneous Paper relating to the trade of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a variety of papers relating to trade in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulph [Gulf]. The volume is organised into four parts, with contents summarised on folio 4: Papers relating to trade with Suez, 1773-78: proceedings, letters, representations and answers (ff 5-57) Trade wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1773-27 Oct 1813
Extent:
1 volume (197 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/532
Title:
Ext 3892/41 'Lt. Col. F.M. Bailey.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey, the India Office and the Foreign Office, regarding the proposed publication of Bailey's account of his personal experiences as an intelligence officer in Turkestan in 1918-1920, the approval for which is ultim...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1940-3 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

3. Mss Eur F226/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/2
Title:
Memoir of John Evelyn Arnold Bazalgette
Scope & Content:
The file is a memoir of the career of Major John Evelyn Arnold Bazalgette, covering his service in the British Army and in India and the Persian Gulf. The file consists of three parts. The first part is a draft of a short memoir entitled ‘Jack of all trades’, which recounts Bazalgette’s experie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 20th century-1984
Extent:

3 items (550 folios)

4. Mss Eur F226/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/7
Title:
Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service
Scope & Content:
This file contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of Sir John Richard Cotton's (b 1909) memoirs of his time in the Indian military and civil service. The memoirs, which were written when the author was 'in his seventy-fourth year', cover his time in the Indian Army, at Aden, Ethiopia, Attock...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1983?
Extent:

1 file (78 folios)

5. Mss Eur F226/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/10
Title:
Memoir of the Career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memoir of the career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow, which records the following: Hadow's motivation; his education and entry into the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and later the Indian Political Service (IPS); his experiences in Russia in 1942, as well as Meshed [Mashhad], ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:

1 file (13 folios)

6. Mss Eur F226/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/13
Title:
"NO MEDALS THIS TIME" by Sir Tom Hickinbotham, KCMG, KCVO, CIE, OBE
Scope & Content:
This volume is a set of typewritten memoirs by Sir Tom Hickinbotham, a retired officer of the British Indian Army and the Indian Political Service. Hickinbotham held various positions in India and in the Middle East, and these memoirs recount stories from his time in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982?
Extent:

1 volume (168 folios)

7. Mss Eur F226/22

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/22
Title:
Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.
Scope & Content:
A memoir written by Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Alexander Gordon Pinhey about his career in the Indian Political Service (IPS), 1927-47. The memoir details: His education, early career and reasons for joining the IPS A description of Baluchistan, where he served as Assistant Political Agent, 1929-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1957
Extent:

1 file (22 folios)

8. Mss Eur F226/23

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/23
Title:
A Grandfather's Tale: Memoirs being mainly concerned with service in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service in India and the Persian Gulf from 1932-1947
Scope & Content:
A memoir written by Major Hugh Dunstan Holwell Rance about his career in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service (IPS), 1932-47. The memoir details: His childhood and education His service in the Indian Army, 1932-36 and 1940-43 His service in the IPS, 1936-40, at Baroda [Vadodara], Si...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1984
Extent:

1 file (57 folios)

9. Mss Eur F226/26

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/26
Title:
Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memoir written by Thomas Edward Rogers. The memoir covers his background, education and career. He also records his reasons for joining the Indian Political Service. The memoir relates his career in India and in the Foreign Service in Bengal, Persia [Iran] and the Gulf, Que...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:

1 file (59 folios)

10. Mss Eur F226/28

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/28
Title:
THIM DAYS IS GONE
Scope & Content:
A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career in the Royal Artillery, Rajputana, Sialkot, Persia, North West Frontier Province, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, and Kuwait. Typescript with manuscript corrections.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1980
Extent:

1 file (124 folios)