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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Military recruitment Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/317
Title:
File 4853/1912 ‘Persia. Military Attaché at Meshed.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, and other papers, relating to the appointment and retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed, Persia [Mashhad, Iran]. Correspondence is exchanged between representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, and the Army Department of the Viceroy (Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1924
Extent:

1 volume (203 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/515

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/515
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: administration; personnel; military officers appointed to civil administration'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains requests for skilled personnel from British civil and military authorities in newly occupied territory in Iraq written between 1916 and 1920, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India. The papers primarily consist of letters from Basra or Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1916-4 Feb 1920
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/579

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/579
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to military operations in Persia in 1916 and Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes' mission to create a military force. Topics discussed in the correspondence include: The proposed increase of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (491 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/748
Title:
File 2835/1918 'Persia: East Persia (Seistan and Khorasan) Levy Corps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers regarding the Sistan Levy Corps [also written as Seistan Levy Corps in the file] and the Khorasan Levy Corps, British military units in East Persia [Iran] formed from local recruits during the First World War. Topics discussed include: issues ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1918-30 Nov 1925
Extent:
1 volume (248 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/12/712

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/712
Title:
Ext 2401/42 'Middle East: recruitment of RAF levies'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, the India Office, the RAF (Royal Air Force) Headquarters in the Middle East, the Minister of State in Cairo, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the British Envoy in Baghdad, and discusses the recruitment of 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1942-29 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3932

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3932
Title:
Coll 30/192(3) ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of Bahrein (a) Employment of British officer & N.C.O. Instructor. Appt. of Capt A.C. Byard. (b) Bahrein Defence Force – Recruitment from personnel of Bahrein Petroleum Company.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of two folders of papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the defence of Bahrain: folder A ‘Bahrein Defence Scheme. Employment of British officer & N.C.O. Instructor. Appt. of Captain A. C. Byard. “ ” Major H.T. Hewitt.’ [‘Bahrein Defence Scheme. Employment of British of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1939-24 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3937
Title:
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1938-8 Mar 1951
Extent:
1 file (430 folios)