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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Military recruitment Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/779

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/779
Title:
Policy - Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the Mesopotamia Campaign of the First World War during May-December 1917. The correspondence discusses strategy, provisioning and recruitment. It is particularly concerned with a perceived unreliability as allies of Russian forces in Mesopotamia [Iraq]....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1917-20 Dec 1917
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/725
Title:
Collection 5/75: ‘Terms of Employment of Officers lent for service under other Governments. Conditions of service of British officers lent to the Persian Govt.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence from officials of the India Office and War Office, British diplomatic officials in Persia [Iran], and officials of the Government of Persia. The correspondence concerns the employment of British officers by the Persian Government, including pay, pensions, and te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Nov 1920-17 Jul 1922
Extent:
1 file (177 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/7/16903

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/16903
Title:
Collection 403/83 ‘Frontier and overseas operations. Kurd levies in N. E. Persia.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to military assistance for the Malleson Mission (also referred to as the Meshed [Mashhad] Mission), and in particular the raising of Hazara and Kurdish levies for service in north-east Persia [Iran]. The main correspondents are the Government of India,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1918-8 Nov 1920
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3265

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3265
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 28. PART II. (From 16th to 30th November 1916).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 16 and 30 November 1916. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these pape...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1916-30 Nov 1916
Extent:

1 volume (120 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/448, ff 3-13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/448, ff 3-13
Title:
Military Recruitment in Bombay
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 27 of 1847, dated 15 March 1847. The enclosures are dated 23 February to 13 March 1847 and contain correspondence relating to the recruitment of three new regiments of Native Infantry under th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1847
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/448, ff 537-553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/448, ff 537-553
Title:
Reductions to Three Regiments of Native Infantry
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 51 of 1847, dated 20 May 1847. The enclosures are dated 12 April to 19 May 1847 and contain correspondence relating to the following: the imposition of reductions to the size and rank of thre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1847
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 303-366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 303-366
Title:
The Anglo-Persian War: The Despatch of a Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse to the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 23 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 17 January-2 February 1857. The item comprises correspondence, by letter and electric tel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/190/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/190/1
Title:
File 21/1911 Pt 1 'Aden Protectorate:- Italian & French recruitment of Arabs.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the recruitment by the governments of Italy and France of natives of the British protectorate of Aden for military and colonial policing purposes. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, Aden; the Viceroy of India; and senior officials of the Foreign Office, the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1905-13 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 item

9. 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)

10. 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)