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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Consul, Basra, 20th century Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/162
Title:
File 757/1909 'Persian Gulf:- Turkey and Turkish aggression (Occupation of Zakhnuniyeh Island. Attitude in piracy cases. Mudirs at Zubara, Odaid and Wakra) British Relations with Turkey in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Turkish occupation of Zakhnuniyah Island, the Ottoman attitude towards piracy cases, and the appointment of officials in Zubara, Odeid and Wakra. The discussion in the volume relates to the Turkish...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/237
Title:
File 868/1912 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and two press-cuttings relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: French proposals regarding the suspension of the Sultan of Muscat's regulat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (160 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/305
Title:
File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to lighting and buoying installed by the Turkish Government in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence discusses concerns over the erection of a Turkish lighthouse in Fao and the basis upon which a protest could...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/547

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547
Title:
File 1093/1915 ‘Basra & Mohammerah Consulates’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts. Part 1 contains correspondence and papers relating to appointments made at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] (ff 5-74). Part 2 contains correspondence and papers concerning the re-opening and associated costs of a British Consulate at Basra (ff 76...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1929
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/127
Title:
PZ 701/1935 Question of Continuance of Pension of Naoum Abbo of Basra
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the issue of whether a pension paid from 1918 to 1923 to Mr Naoum Abbo of Basra, an Iraqi national, should be continued. The correspondence includes: Letters and copies of letters between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, including a co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1935-6 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/483
Title:
PZ 934/41 'Persian Gulf Shipping.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the British Consul at Basra, HM Ambassador to Iraq, and the Minister of Shipping, regarding the monopoly over shipping in the Persian Gulf held by the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, and the consequent restrictive effects on other shipping...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1940-18 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2866

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2866
Title:
Coll 17/12(1) 'Iraq/ Indian Vice-Consul at Basra'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the establishment of an Indian Vice-Consul at Basra, and the appointment of Khan Sahib Mian Abdullah to the position. The correspondents are HM Ambassador to Baghdad, the Consul-General at Basra, the Foreign Office, and the Government of India External Affairs Department...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1946-13 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3369
Title:
Coll 27/9 ‘Passports. British Protected Persons. Travel documents for persons proceeding to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab states.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to passports and visas for persons travelling to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab states. It includes papers concerning the following: the procedure in connection with the issue of these travel documents; fees...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1924-27 Sep 1939
Extent:

1 volume (618 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/615
Title:
File 73/7 V (D 38) Status of Kuwait, Anglo-Turkish Convention
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, maps, and newspaper cuttings relating to Anglo-Turkish negotiations over the Baghdad Railway, status of Kuwait, and other Persian Gulf matters. The correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, British Consul for Arabistan, Percy Cox, Political Resident at Bus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jan 1914-16 Jul 1919
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)