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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Air Ministry, 1918-1964 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/46

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/46
Title:
Military report on Iraq. Area 9 (Central Kurdistan)
Scope & Content:
This volume compiled and published by the Air Ministry in London in August of 1929 is one of a set of ten volumes produced for British military forces in Iraq. Area 9 covers the region of central Kurdistan and is divided into chapters on history, population, political geography, physical geograph...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:

1 Volume (193 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/61
Title:
'Report of the Operations connected with the Occupation of Penjwin between April 18th and May 7th, 1927'.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a report on the operations connected with the occupation of Penjwin [District], Iraq by the Iraq Levies and Iraq Army, between 18 April and 7 May 1927. Promulgated by Command of the Air Council. Published by the Air Ministry. The appendices include: supply arrangements; ord...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/63
Title:
Report on the operations carried out in the southern desert in connection with the Iraq-Najd borders, June 1928-May 1929.
Scope & Content:
A printed report on air and motorcar operations carried out along the Iraq-Najd border following several cross-border raids. The report was produced and issued by the Air Ministry and printed in London in July 1930. The volume is divided into three sections: the report; appendices; and maps. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:

1 volume (15 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/965/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/965/1
Title:
File 537/1921 Part 1 'Persia: Oil - Defence of A.P. Oil Co's fields etc'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding the protection of oilfields in Arabistan, Persia [the southern part of Khuzestan Province, Iran] run by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). Topics discussed include: The withdrawal of a British military unit from Ahwaz [Ahvaz] followin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1920-21 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 item (161 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1248/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1248/1
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 17 'Iraq-Nejd relations: Southern Desert of Iraq.'
Scope & Content:
The part concerns the administration of the Southern Desert of Iraq, and the situation on the border between Iraq and the kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. The papers cover: correspondence from Sir Andrew Ryan, HM Minister at Jeddah, the Foreign Office, and the Colonial Office concerning the Hejaz and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1930-18 Apr 1933
Extent:
1 item (36 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf negotiations 1928. Revision of Foreign Office Memorandum of 1908 for C.I.D. Persian Gulf Sub-Committee.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the revision of a 1908 Foreign Office memorandum on British interests in the Persian Gulf by the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade. The memorandum was being revised at the request of the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1928-17 Jan 1929
Extent:

1 item (218 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1272/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1272/2
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 14 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control: 1. Telegraphic Communication between British Authorities in the Persian Gulf. 2. Conditions under which Pol. Rs. P. Gulf may communicate with A.O.C. Iraq.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to communications between British authorities in the Persian Gulf. The papers mainly concern the following: the sharing of telegraphic communications between the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, the Political Resident at Bushi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1928-19 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 item (94 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1273
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 16 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control Report of the Warren Fisher Committee.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning political control in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The first half of the file relates to the inter-departmental Sub-Committee of Political Control of the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Sub-Committee on Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1929-8 Aug 1939
Extent:

1 file (285 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/1275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1275
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 2 ‘Muscat Situation at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1926-19 Nov 1931
Extent:

1 volume (396 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/98
Title:
PZ 1084/34 'Supply of Secret & Confidential Publications to the Air Ministry Who's who of the N.W.F. Tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains printed copies of the bi-annual Addenda and Corrigenda to Who’s Who in the North-West Frontier Province, for the years 1934 to 1937. This biographical compilation is one of several confidential and secret Government of India intelligence publications made available to serving of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1934-30 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)