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1. IOR/L/PS/10/354

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/354
Title:
File 747/1913 Pt 2 'Persia- Loans. Swedish gendarmerie'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, minutes, telegrams, and other papers relating to the financial advances made by His Majesty’s Government and the Government of India to the Persian Government. The only loan discussed was of the amount of £50,000 to be payable to the Persian Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Apr 1913-5 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/355
Title:
File 747/1913 Pt 3 'Persia: LOANS. (1914-18) [Cost of Swedish Gendarmerie].'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, Memoranda, minutes, telegrams, and other papers mainly between the British Ministry at Tehran; and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The correspondence is relating to the financial difficulties of the Persian Government and the question of loa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Mar 1914-19 Sep 1918
Extent:

1 volume (224 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/513
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 1 'Basra administration'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the civil administration of Basra and its environs after its takeover by British forces during the First World War, such as the city's police force. Other topics covered in the papers include the importation of Indian Staff for the new administration, the sup...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:
1 file 281 (folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/839
Title:
File 3467/1919 'MESOPOTAMIA POLICE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains weekly police reports from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Baghdad, covering events in Iraq [sometimes referred to in the volume as Mesopotamia] under British occupation in 1919-20, including during the Iraqi Revolt. The reports contain intelligence about the movements ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1919-4 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (639 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/874
Title:
File 7512/1919 ‘MESOPOTAMIA – LEVIES’
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of papers relating to the Arab and Kurdish Levies in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers include correspondence from the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia at Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this volume), Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, to the India Office, mostl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1919-14 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 volume (181 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/897B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/897B
Title:
File 4330/1920 ‘Revenue Secretariat, Baghdad. MONTHY REPORTS OF POLITICAL OFFICERS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF IRAQ. for the month of February, 1920.’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of February 1920, forwarded by the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq], to the Under-Secretary of State for India. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1920-2 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (189 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/897C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/897C
Title:
File 4330/1920 Revenue Secretariat Baghdad ‘Monthly Reports of Political Officers of the Occupied Territories. March 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of March 1920, forwarded by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, to the Under-Secretary of State for India. It includes: Reports fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1920-2 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (119 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1384
Title:
Pol Ext 6453/49 Tear-gas expert for Iraqi police: suggested appointment of Pakistani officer
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British Embassy in Baghdad and UK High Commissioner in Karachi regarding the secondment of a tear-gas specialist to the Iraqi police force. The papers discuss the inability of the Iraqi police to use newly obtained stocks of American tear gas without ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1949-2 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2883
Title:
Coll 17/22(1) ‘Iraq: Iraq-Koweit Relations. Iraqi incursions into Koweiti territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to alleged incidents occurring on or near the border between Iraq and Kuwait (Koweit). It mostly concerns alleged incidents of Iraqi police in armed cars making incursions into Kuwait territory, and alleged incidents of violation of Kuwaiti territorial waters by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1934-31 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (585 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2884

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2884
Title:
Coll 17/22(2) 'Iraq. Iraq - Koweit Relations. Iraqi incursions into Koweiti territory.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mainly correspondence, relating to relations between Iraq and Kuwait (Koweit), mostly concerning alleged instances of incursions into Kuwaiti territory by Iraqi police in pursuit of smugglers, and proposals for the demarcation of the frontier between Iraq and Kuwait. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1937-23 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (365 folios)