Plan 3 showing operations against Qurna, 4th December 1914
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Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1921. Distinctive Features: Depth shown by soundings recorded in feet at low water. Plan of Shatt al ’Arab River near Qurna drawn from plan prepared by Lieutenant of H.M.S. ‘Espiegle’ showing the position of British forces on 4 December 1914, including location of...
Plan 4 showing operations against Qurna, 8th December 1914
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Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1921. Distinctive Features: Depth shown by soundings recorded in feet at low water. Plan of Shatt al ’Arab River near Qurna drawn from plan prepared by Lieutenant of H.M.S. ‘Espiegle’ showing the position of British forces on 8 December 1914, including location of ...
‘Plan 5 showing probable position of Turks near Rota, 21st Jan. 1915’
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Distinctive Features: Rough sketch showing the Tigris River near Rota [Ar Rawtah] drawn from plan prepared by G.S. India showing the position of British and Arab forces, including the location of camps, trenches and guns.
Imprint: General Staff India. S.D.O. No. 1377, October, 1915. Distinctive Features: Sketch map produced to illustrate a report on military operations at Bushire on the 9th September 1915 showing the movements of British and enemy forces with location of posts indicated. Marked ‘For Official...
The map highlights the regions of the Pan-Turkish ideal across the world, and is colour-coded to divide it into: the area at present (1917) inhabited by Turco-Moslems [Turco-Muslims]; the area included in the present Pan-Turkish ideal; the area of possible extension by inclusion of non-Muslim peo...
‘Railway Map of Basra and Magil Showing Tentative Proposals for Port Development’
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Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office, Calcutta. Reproduced by Bashrah Survey Party I.E.F.”D” No. 81 Dated 12.6.17. Signature of Acting Director of Railways in the bottom right-hand corner. Distinctive Features: Plan of Basra showing railway infrastructure including existi...
Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India with the Approval of the Right Hon'ble The Secretary of State for India, to Enquire into Questions Connected with the Organisation and Administration of the Railway and River Transport in Mesopotamia
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The volume is Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India with the Approval of the Right Hon'ble The Secretary of State for India, to Enquire into Questions Connected with the Organisation and Administration of the Railway and River Transport ...
Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India with the Approval of the Right Hon'ble The Secretary of State for India, to Enquire into Questions Connected with the Organisation and Administration of the Railway and River Transport in Mesopotamia. Maps
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The volume is Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India with the Approval of the Right Hon'ble The Secretary of State for India, to Enquire into Questions Connected with the Organisation and Administration of the Railway and River Transport ...
‘Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. I’
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The key to the map indicates: roads actually in use with wheeled vehicles; roads fit for passage of wheeled artillery; camel tracks; railway lines; telegraph lines and telegraph offices; post offices; boundaries, both demarcated and undemarcated. Also indicated are rivers and waterways; settlemen...
The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia Volume III, Part I. General Staff India 1916 (Reprint April 1918) (Simla: Printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1918). The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprise...
