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Subject Internment Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 89025

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89025
Title:
Letter diary of Konrad Eisig's voyage on HMT Dunera and his internment in Australia
Scope & Content:
1.) Typed introduction to Konrad Eisig's letter diary by Claudia Cotton, the niece of Konrad Eisig for her daughter Rebecca and her grandchildren. 2.) Letter diary written to Jeanie of the experiences of Konrad Eisig, a Christian ethnically Jewish German refugee after being arrested and interne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-1941
Extent:
1 file

2. IOR/L/PS/10/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/117
Title:
File 636/1907 'Turkish Arabia: Bagdad Consulate. Mr Gaskin (Commercial Asst). Detention by Turkish authorities (1914-1918). Settlement of accounts.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the appointment of John Calcott Gaskin as Commercial Assistant to the British Consul at Bagdad in 1906, and the decision for his salary to be paid jointly by the British Government Treasury and the Government of India. Following the outbreak of The First World War t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1904-28 Mar 1929
Extent:
1 volume (300 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/648
Title:
File 287/1917 ''Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians''
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for alleged anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta. The file includes corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (155 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/575

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/575
Title:
Ext 5626/41 'Internment of Axis (German and Italian) nationals in Iran. Question of their disposal.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the internment and proposed transfer of civilian Axis nationals (mainly Germans and Italians but also Bulgarians, Hungarians and Romanians) who have been handed over to the British authorities in Persia [Iran]. The file features the following principal correspondents: His ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Aug 1941-24 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/577

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/577
Title:
Ext 5609/41 'Arrest of Iraqis etc. in Persia – question of disposal'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns arrangements for the detention by the British military authorities of a number of Iraqi political refugees (plus a smaller number of Palestinian refugees) located in Persia, some of whom are reported to have taken refuge in the Japanese Legation in Tehran. The principal corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1941-27 Jan 1944
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1960

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1960
Title:
Coll 5/15 (2) ‘Afghanistan: Violations of Afghan Frontier by, and landing in Afghanistan of British aircraft; Landing of Afghan aircraft in India’
Scope & Content:
The file is made up of correspondence generated as a result of complaints submitted by the Government of Afghanistan to the Government of India, via the British Legation at Kabul. These complaints concern allegations of violations of Afghan territory by aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF), and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jun 1942-13 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (279 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3532
Title:
Coll 28/119 ‘Persia [Iran] Internment & repatriation of enemy nationals in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Secret correspondence concerning the internment or repatriation of enemy nationals in Persia [Iran] during the Second World War. The correspondence covers: the estimated numbers of enemy nationals in Persia, including Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Italians, Romanians, Estonians and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1942-4 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/637
Title:
File 24/10 John Hinsler
Scope & Content:
The file contains only four documents, all dating from October 1946. There is a letter and enclosure from the British Embassy in Baghdad to the Political Agent, Bahrain asking him to take temporary custody of a seemingly harmless destitute calling himself John Hinsler, who had been detained in Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1946-15 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)