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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 62

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 62
Title:
‘Plate I. Showing Officers Badges of Rank on Shoulder Straps (Field Service Order) with Colours of Branches of Service.’
Scope & Content:
The illustration features badges for Persian army ranks of: Naib Sewum (office personnel); Naib Dowan (cavalry); Naib Awwal (artillery); Sultan (engineers); Yamar (transport); Naib Sarhang (staff); Sarhang (veterinary); Sartip (infantry); Amir Lashkar; Sipahbod [Spāhbed]; and Farmandeh Kul Qushu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1925
Extent:
1 illustration

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 1
Title:
‘Plate II. Plate showing Badges of Rank of Non-Commissioned Officers. Field Service Order.’
Scope & Content:
Showing: cuff badges for Tabin Awwal and Sirjougeh; shoulder badges for Wakil Chap (infantry); Wakil Rast (cavalry); Wakil Bashi (artillery); and Moin Naib (transport). A note states that ‘the colour of the shoulder strap varies with the branch of the service.’
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1925
Extent:
1 illustration

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 2
Title:
‘Plate III. Plate showing Pattern of Numerals as worn on Shoulder Straps of Regiments’
Scope & Content:
Illustrations of the Arabic numerals 1-9 and 0, with an additional illustration of a shoulder strap for the Naib Dowum of the 10th (Qahreman) Cavalry Regiment, indicating the placement of the regiment number.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1925
Extent:
1 illustration

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 3
Title:
‘Plate VI. Plate showing Badges of Rank of Police Officers.’
Scope & Content:
Showing the badges of rank for Persian police officers, with collars and cuffs for: Naib Dowum (cavalry), Naib Awwal (artillery), Sultan (engineers), Yamar (transport), Naib Sarhang (staff), and Sarhang (veterinary).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1925
Extent:
1 illustration

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 12
Title:
‘Sarhang Hájji Ibrahim Khán, Commandant of the Bakhtiari Horse.’
Scope & Content:
One photographic print: a full-length portrait of Sarhang (a rank equivalent to Colonel) Hajji Ibrahim Khán, Commandant of the Bakhtiari Horse. The title is printed above the photograph in Persian, and below the photograph in English. The Persian title also bears a date: Hijri year 1301 (c.1883).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
?1883
Extent:
1 photographic print

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 63
Title:
‘Sartip Muhammed Hossein Khán, Bakhtiari.’
Scope & Content:
One photographic print: a full-length portrait of Sartip (a Persian military rank equivalent to Brigadier General) Muhammed Hossein Khán. The title is printed above the photograph in Persian, and below the photograph in English. The Persian title also bears a date: Hijri year 1301 (c.1883).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
?1883
Extent:
1 photographic print

7. IOR/L/PS/10/14/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/14/1
Title:
Sketch of village of Mazub Habil Al Khadar looking North into Turkish [Ottoman] Territory
Scope & Content:
A simple sketch of the village of Mazub Habil Al Khadar looking north into Turkish [Ottoman] Territory from the British Protectorate of Aden.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 folio

8. IOR/L/PS/10/38, f 136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38, f 136
Title:
Tracing of ‘Rough Sketch of proposed buildings at Angaum [Jazīreh-ye Hengām]’
Scope & Content:
The drawing is a tracing of a sketch drawn by Major J Mill Champain, Assistant Director in Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, and dated 23 March 1868. The drawing shows the northern tip of the island of Angaum [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], with the following buildings identified and labelled A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 drawing

9. IOR/L/PS/10/209, f 344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/209, f 344
Title:
Illustration of the Russian bombardment of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, 1912
Scope & Content:
A print of an illustration that depicts the bombardment of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad by Russian artillery forces, an incident that occurred in April 1912. A poem in Farsi is displayed around the edge of the illustration and a translation of this poem is contained on folio 343.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 folio

10. IOR/L/PS/20/59, f 12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/59, f 12
Title:
‘Panorama showing ground traversed by Anglo-Turkish boundary ‘Haushabi-Humar’ to N. of ‘Ad Dareja’’
Scope & Content:
Black and white reproduction of an illustration of mountainous territory on the Anglo-Turkish boundary. Significant hills and summits are marked as either being in British (B) or Turkish (T) territory, or being on the boundary itself (BO).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 illustration