Report on the Persian Army compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant J.A. Douglas 2nd Bengal Lancers
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This file is a report on the structure of the Persian Army. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant James Archibald Douglas, the report gives the British perspective of the strength and weaknesses of the Persian Army. The report is ...
The file consists of two physical files of papers (Mss Eur F112/163 and 164), relating to the Mesopotamia [Iraq] Expedition of the First World War. The first physical file (Mss Eur F112/163, ff 1-270), consists of: letters to Lord Curzon; printed copies of letters and telegrams, including tele...
Letters and Papers from Various People on a Number of Matters Mostly Relating to Persia
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The file contains correspondence from a number of diplomats, army officers, political officers, explorers, orientalists, journalists, businessmen, and Persian notables, many of which are personal friends of Lord Curzon. Correspondents include: Lieutenant Herbert John Coningham, army officer and...
Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia
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The file contains correspondence from a number of political officers, civil servants, writers, journalists, army officers, businessmen, and engineers. Correspondents include: Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, former Governor of Bombay; Albert Houtum-Schindler, former employee o...
Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railw...
This file concerns British policy regarding Persia (and, to a lesser extent, British interests in Mesopotamia). It is largely composed of printed memoranda by George Curzon and other senior British politicians. Also included is a significant amount of related letters and despatches, as well as p...
Mesopotamia: Papers relating to the future administration of Mesopotamia for the Committee over which I presided, 1917-1919
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File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the Mesopotamia Administration Committee, collected by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Lord President of the Council, who chaired the Committee. The papers cover a variety of topics relating to the administration of Britis...
Memoranda Relating to Departmental Views on the Conduct of the War in the East and the Administration of Mesopotamia
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The file comprises typescript, printed and manuscript memoranda, dated 1918 and 1920 by: Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India; Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (up to October 1919); Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office; and Forei...
Reports and papers of the Egyptian Administration Committee
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The file contains copies of memoranda and reports relating to the government and administration of Egypt. Included are memoranda produced by the War Cabinet on the subject and minutes of four meetings held by the Egyptian Administration Committee during September and October 1917.
Correspondence with A J Balfour, Sir R Wingate, Lord Allenby, Lord Milner and others on Egypt
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The file contains official and private correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to political affairs in Egypt. The correspondents and authors are officials at the Foreign Office (Lord Curzon was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the time), War Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, Colo...
