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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Shatt al ʻArab, Middle East, Asia Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/86
Title:
Plan for operations in Turkish Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file is a report, compiled by the Army Headquarters and printed in 1914 at the Government Monotype Press (Simla), regarding planning for operations in Turkish Mesopotamia (Iraq). The report has been compiled on the basis of the latest information available and with approval of His Excellency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/266
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it. The correspondence focuses on: the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these diff...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1912-25 Sep 1912
Extent:
1 volume (436 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/267
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople. (Mohammerah Boundary)'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing negotiations in Constantinople between the Ottoman, British and Russian Governments through 1912 and 1913 regarding the Turco-Persian Frontier. Also discussed is the decision in July 1913 to establish a delimitation commission to which Albert Charles Wratislaw an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Aug 1912-4 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/430
Title:
File 4880/1913 Pt 1-2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and maps concerning the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission of 1913. Part 1 concerns arrangements for an Anglo-Russian loan to the Persian Commission, to provide for the cost of erecting boundary pillars. Part 2 concerns negotiations over and arrangements for the Turco-Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1915
Extent:

1 volume (314 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B215
Title:
Sherif of Mecca.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a confidential printed report entitled 'Sherif of Mecca'. The report contains transcriptions of correspondence, a statement by a messenger (described below), and notes relating to Sherif Hosayn, the Sherif [Shereef] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī], particularly in terms of his re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B225
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey, Indian Army, Political Agent, Kuwait to Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political Department, India Office
Scope & Content:
The letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey to Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel encloses a copy of a letter No. C/8 of 1915 by Grey, as Political Agent in Kuwait, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 June 1915, regarding Arab co-operation with the Turks in the Shatt al-Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1915
Extent:

2 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B430
Title:
The Southern Boundary of Qatar and the Connected Problems
Scope & Content:
A report concerning the demarcation of Qatar's southern boundary written by India Office representative, John Gilbert Laithwaite. The report (folios 1-4) is divided up into the following short sections: The Boundary on the South-East; The Boundary on the South-West; The Position Prior to the Ang...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/370

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/370
Title:
File 19/243 II (C 72) Zubarah
Scope & Content:
File contains correspondence related to hostilities that occurred between the forces of Shaikh Abdullah bin Qassim Al Thani of Qatar and the Al Naim tribe that took place in June and July 1937. At this time, the Al Naim tribe was allied to the Al Khalifa ruling family of Bahrain who claimed Zu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1937-24 Jul 1937
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/611

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/611
Title:
'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memorandums pertaining to Anglo-Turkish negotiations brought on by the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. Correspondents include: Percy Cox, Political Resident at Bushire, William Shakespear, Political Agent at Kuwait, Edward Grey...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
24 Oct 1911-26 Dec 1912
Extent:
1 volume (268 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/613

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/613
Title:
File 73/7 III (D 24) Status of Kuwait & Anglo-Turkish negotiations
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memorandums, maps and newspaper cuttings relating to a proposed Baghdad to Basra railway, an extension of the German Berlin to Baghdad Railway. Correspondents include: Percy Cox, Political Resident at Bushire, William Shakespear, Political Agent at Kuwait, Edw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
23 Nov 1912-2 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 volume (355 folios)