File 4744/1915 Pt 1-2 'THE WAR: ARAB BUREAU AT CAIRO. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'The War: Arab Bureau at Cairo. Intelligence Service for the Middle East'. Part 1 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/1] concerns the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, 1915-18 (folios 46-238). Part 2 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/2] concerns War Office propos...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to British policy towards Persia within the context of maintaining British interests there in the light of the war with Germany. In particular the correspondence details the British financial relationship ...
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...
File 160/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Persia; Sir P Sykes' mission. Officers for South Persia Military Police; South Persia Rifles'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the transfer of various individuals from military units in India to positions in the South Persia Rifles, and associated issues of grading and pay. The discussions concern the conditions for medical off...
File 334/1916 Pt 1 ‘German War – Persia. Shiraz Prisoners – Major O’Connor’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the arrest at Shiraz by the Persian gendarmerie on 10 November 1915 of HM Consul at Shiraz (Major William Frederick Travers O’Connor), the Manager and other employees of the Imperial Bank of Persia at Shiraz, the Superintendent of the Shiraz section and other...