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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name War Office, 1857-1964 Level [41] Item

1. IOR/L/PS/10/387/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/387/1
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Policy towards Bin Saud (Capt. Shakespear's Mission)'
Scope & Content:
Part 4 primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], following the outbreak of the First World War. It includes the following: discussion regarding Bin Saud's relations with the Ottoman government, and the need for the British to secur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1914-17 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 item (211 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/389/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/389/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
Part 8 primarily concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. Included are the following: discussion as to which ruler has the stronger claim to Khurma, and whether Bin Saud shou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1918-26 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 item (300 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/390/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 10 'N.W. Frontier: Proposed Russian zoological expedition'
Scope & Content:
The title provided at the beginning of this item does not relate in any way to the item's contents. Part 10 is in fact concerned with the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 May 1919-13 Jan 1920
Extent:

1 item (330 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/391/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/391/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 12 'ARABIA: RELATIONS WITH BIN SAUD (AMIR OF NEJD) (HEJAZ-NEJD BOUNDARY DISPUTE)'
Scope & Content:
Part 12 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. Much of the correspondence relates to (unsucces...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1920-21 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 item (223 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/576/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576/2
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 2 'Middle East: Intelligence Service for'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern War Office proposals for the co-ordination of intelligence work in Egypt and the Middle East, and reaction to the proposals by the Government of India. The principal correspondents are senior Army officers; and senior officials of the War Office, the India Office, and the For...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1919-5 Apr 1920
Extent:

1 item

6. IOR/L/PS/10/609/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/609/1
Title:
P 3280/1916 Pt 1 'Arabia: [Asir]: Financial and Other Assistance to the Idrissi [etc.] Appointment of a Liaison-Medical Officer (Capt Fazuluddin)'
Scope & Content:
The file mostly consists of correspondence relating to the Idrisi [Idrissi] Sayid of Asir in Southern Arabia. It includes: India Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, the War Office, and the Foreign Department of the Government of India; and internal India Office minutes and reference p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jul 1916-1 May 1922
Extent:
1 item (229 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/687/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/687/2
Title:
File 2678/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: financial arrangements; rouble exchange'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the financing, by the British Government, of the Imperial Russian Army in Persia [Iran], particularly the difficulties in the acquisition of currency to pay troops, and policy developments concerning the role of Russian forces in Britain’s military and polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1917-26 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 item (165 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/735/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/735/1
Title:
File 1000/1918 Pt 3 'Persia: situation & policy'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence regarding affairs in Persia [Iran] in May-November 1918 during the First World War, including: Military actions within Persia, particularly those in northern Persia involving Dunsterforce, the Allied military force commanded by General Lionel Dunsterville The resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1918-10 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/833/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/1
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1919-22 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/833/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/2
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 2, ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Amadia Incident’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to a violent incident on 14 July 1919 in Amadia [Amadiya], central Kurdistan, during which Captain D Willey and Lieutenant Hamish MacDonald, both of the 13th Hussars, were killed by ‘local gendarmes’ (f 200) and other officers and civilians injured. The papers notably cover and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-19 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)