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56112. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29
- Title:
- ‘A report on Cyprus.’
- Scope & Content:
- A booklet, subtitled ‘Based on a tour of this Island carried out by Colonel G [George] Craster, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Indian Army (Retired), with the object of assessing its suitability for settlement by officers of the Indian Army affected by the War Block Scheme’. The report was printed by the ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1936
- Extent:
-
1 file (12 folios)
56113. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/38
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/38
- Title:
- Glossary of Persian military terms, with Appendix I, containing ranks of the Persian Army; Appendix II, containing musketry terms
- Scope & Content:
- This volume is a glossary of Persian military terms and was published in Lucknow by the Newul Kishore Press. The terms are listed in alphabetical order in English and the Persian translation appears next to each term. There are two appendices at the end of the volume: the first contains a list ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and Persian
- Date Range:
- 1926
- Extent:
- 1 volume (22 folios)
56114. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/62
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/62
- Title:
- Report on the operations carried out in the southern desert in connection with the Iraq-Najd borders, November 1927-May 1928.
- Scope & Content:
- A printed report on air and motorcar operations carried out along the Iraq-Najd border following several cross-border raids. The report was produced and issued by the Air Ministry and printed in London in December 1928. The volume is divided into three sections: the report, appendices, and maps....
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1928
- Extent:
-
1 volume (33 folios)
56115. 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)
56116. IOR/L/MIL/5/512
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/5/512
- Title:
- Copy correspondence between the East India Company Court and the War Office on supplying field telegraph equipment to the forces in the Persian Gulf
- Scope & Content:
- The file comprises copy correspondence between James Melvill, Secretary, East India Company, with the War Office, regarding procurement of two field telegraphs for shipment to Bombay and transmission to Bushire, the Headquarters of the Expedition force in the Persian Gulf (also spelled Gulph), u...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 27 Dec 1856-16 Jan 1857
- Extent:
- 1 file (16 folios)
56117. IOR/L/MIL/5/794
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/5/794
- Title:
- Policy etc. following Genl. Smuts recommendations: Egypt and Mesopotamia
- Scope & Content:
- The file contains correspondence regarding military policy and strategy in Egypt and Mesopotamia [Iraq] during the First World War in response to recommendations made by General Jan Christiaan Smuts, Defence Minister of South Africa and a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. Topics covered in t...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 21 Feb 1918-28 Mar 1918
- Extent:
- 1 file (22 folios)
56118. IOR/L/MIL/7/10816
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/7/10816
- Title:
- Collection 248/13 'Quarterly Returns showing strength of Consular Guards and Escorts in Persia.'
- Scope & Content:
- This file contains copies of quarterly strength returns dated 30 September 1910 to 1 January 1929, sent by the Government of India, Army Department and (from July 1925) Army Headquarters, India to the India Office. The strength returns list personnel of the British Indian Army serving as Consul...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 29 Jul 1910-13 Feb 1929
- Extent:
- 1 file (357 folios)
56119. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/25
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/25
- Title:
- 'Memorandum of information received during the month of August 1909, relating to affairs in Persia, and on the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf'
- Scope & Content:
- The file consists of a memorandum written by Leonard William Reynolds, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, at Simla, 1 September 1909. Based upon a series of reports it covers: the situation in Persia - Azerbaijan, Shiraz, and Kerman; the Zil-es-Sultan; telegraph lines in Persia; the R...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1909
- Extent:
-
1 file (7 folios)
56120. IOR/L/MIL/5/787
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/5/787
- Title:
- 'Railways - Mesopotamia and L of C [Lines of Communication] Policy'
- Scope & Content:
- The file, marked secret, contains correspondence and notes regarding rail and river transportation for the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War. The papers cover a number of matters, including: Strategic considerations of the use of rail and river communications Supply of railway mat...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 18 May 1917-21 Dec 1917
- Extent:
- 1 file (100 folios)








