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1. IOR/L/MIL/7/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/706
Title:
Collection 5/56: ‘Terms of employment of officers lent for service under other Governments. Selection of British officers to organise Ottoman Gendarmerie in Asiatic Turkey. Proposals abandoned.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between officials of the Foreign Office, War Office, India Office, and other diplomatic and administrative staff, and from the Turkish [Ottoman] Ambassador to Great Britain. It concerns proposals, subsequently suspended, for the appointment of British officers to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Apr 1913-4 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/725
Title:
Collection 5/75: ‘Terms of Employment of Officers lent for service under other Governments. Conditions of service of British officers lent to the Persian Govt.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence from officials of the India Office and War Office, British diplomatic officials in Persia [Iran], and officials of the Government of Persia. The correspondence concerns the employment of British officers by the Persian Government, including pay, pensions, and te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Nov 1920-17 Jul 1922
Extent:
1 file (177 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3278
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 35. PART I. (From 1st to 15th June 1917).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 June 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Sep 1915-15 Jun 1917
Extent:
1 volume (209 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/407
Title:
File 3463/1913 ‘Aden Frontier Proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains India Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, mainly about the latter’s proposal to seek ratification of the Aden boundary settlement of 1905, as part of British counter-concessions to be tabled at the Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention negotiations in London, 1913-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:

1 volume (130 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/416

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/416
Title:
File 4045/1913 Pt 1-2 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia. Parts one and two of three. Topics covered: the proposed application by the Société Internationale d'Études for the opt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1916
Extent:
1 volume (251 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/491

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/491
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 16 'German War: Persia; general; question of alliance'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British-Russian attempt to gain trust from the Persian Government, to avoid alliances with the Germans. The volume covers: Discussion on Russian proposal to place the Shia holy shrines of Kerbala and N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Sep 1915-24 Dec 1915
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/568

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/568
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 5 ‘Mesopotamia: trade; wool’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning the export of wool from Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of the country after the First World War. The contents of the file are a direct chronological continuation of File 3104/1915 Pt 4 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with Bag...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Sep 1918-29 Sep 1919
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/596
Title:
File 1889/1916 ‘Mesopotamia; Export of dates’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the export of dates from Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of Mesopotamia in the First World War. The file includes: correspondence dated 1916 relating to the lifting of a general prohibition on the export of dates from Mohammerah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 May 1916-9 Sep 1920
Extent:

1 volume (350 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/649

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/649
Title:
File 390/1917 Pt 1-3 ‘Persia:- Exclusion of Undesirable Aliens.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the question of British authorities allowing foreign subjects, mainly German, Austrian, Swedish and Swiss subjects, to enter Persia [Iran], and the desire of the British Government to prevent German agents, and individuals suspected of having pro-German sym...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 May 1915-18 Jan 1923
Extent:

1 volume (242 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)