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91. Mss Eur F112/555, f 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/555, f 3
Title:
'Country North of the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
Classified 'Secret'. Created by the War Office. Covers the northernmost fifty miles of the Persian Gulf and its hinterland extending 400 miles to the north and west into Lower Mesopotamia in present-day Iraq and Iran. Portrays freshwater and coastal hydrology, roads and tracks, railways, telegr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 map sheet

92. Mss Eur F112/555, f 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/555, f 4
Title:
'Sketch Map showing Enemy's Position Wadi to Kut'
Scope & Content:
Created by the War Office. Covers a twenty-five mile length of the River Tigris, to a width of approximately ten miles, from Kut [Al-Kut] to Wadi [Nahr Wadi] in present-day eastern Iraq. Created to support the Allied relief of Kut and associated Battle of Dujailah against Turkish forces. Portray...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 map sheet

93. Mss Eur F112/555, f 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/555, f 5
Title:
'Map Showing British Position on the Tigris 13th. December, 1916.'
Scope & Content:
Created by the War Office. Covers a twenty-five mile length of the River Tigris, to a width of approximately ten miles, from Kut [Al-Kut] to Wadi [Nahr Wadi] in present-day eastern Iraq. Created to support the Allied relief of Kut against Turkish forces. Portrays hydrology, roads and tracks, rai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 map sheet

94. Mss Eur F112/555, f 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/555, f 6
Title:
'Map Showing British Position on the Tigris 31st. January, 1917.'
Scope & Content:
Created by the War Office. Covers a twenty-five mile length of the River Tigris, to a width of approximately ten miles, from Kut [Al-Kut] to Wadi [Nahr Wadi] in present-day eastern Iraq. Created to support the Allied relief of Kut against Turkish forces. Portrays hydrology, roads and tracks, rai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 map sheet

95. Mss Eur F112/555, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/555, f 7
Title:
'Map showing Enemy's Position at east end of Suwaicha Marsh'
Scope & Content:
Created by the War Office. Covers a one-mile length of the River Tigris in the vicinity of Suwaicha Marsh, six miles east of Kut [Al-Kut] in present-day eastern Iraq. Shows detail on the left bank only, to a distance of approximately half a mile. Created to support the Allied relief of Kut and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 map sheet

96. Mss Eur F112/555, f 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/555, f 8
Title:
Kut to Sheikh Saad
Scope & Content:
Created by Ordnance Survey. Covers a forty-five-mile length of the River Tigris from Kut [Al-Kut] eastwards to Sheikh Saad [Shaykh Sa'd] in present-day eastern Iraq. Sheet extends approximately five miles to the north and fifteen miles to the south of the river. Created to support the Allied rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 map sheet

97. Mss Eur F112/558

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/558
Title:
Maps 'Berlin-Baghdad or "Mittel Europa"'
Scope & Content:
These maps represent a British impression of the expansionist ambitions of the German State during the First World War derived from the writings of Pan-Germanic authors of the period, in particular Paul Anton de Lagarde. The map represents the route of the railway project that links the Central ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:

2 map sheets

98. Mss Eur F112/558, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/558, f 1
Title:
Lithograph depicting Rumania as neutral, with later watercolour wash to show her subsequent Allied allegiance
Scope & Content:
Original printed sheet depicted Rumania [Romania] in yellow (neutral). On this copy Rumania has been painted over with a green watercolour wash to show her later Allied allegiance. Also shows population figures for Central Powers countries. Verso bears the annotation 'Berlin to Baghdad'. Anoth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 map sheet

99. Mss Eur F112/558, f 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/558, f 2
Title:
Lithograph depicting Rumania's Allied allegiance
Scope & Content:
Printed sheet depicting Rumania [Romania] in green (Allied). Bears the annotation 'Lord Curzon'. Also shows updated population figures for Central Powers countries. Verso bears the annotations 'All Europe' and 'Lord Curzon'.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 map sheet

100. Mss Eur F112/570

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/570
Title:
Maps and Associated Documents Relating to the Post-war Realignment of Boundaries in the Former Ottoman Empire
Scope & Content:
Maps and documents prepared for the re-alignment of boundaries in the former Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the First World War. As follows: f 1 'Sketch Map of Asia Minor, showing approximate course of Roads and Railways'. With boundary additions. Engraved by Emery Walker Ltd. [1915-17] f 2 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Early 1890s-1920?
Extent:

42 map sheets and 8 folios