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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Military Attaché, Tehran, Late 19th century-20th century

1. IOR/L/PS/10/62

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/62
Title:
File 3355/1904 'Persia: Attack on Col. Douglas and Lt Lorimer'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials (primarily in the Foreign Office and India Office) concerning an attack on Colonel J A Douglas, Military Attaché of His Majesty's Legation at Tehran; and Lieutenant David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, His Majesty's Vice-Consul for Arabist...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1907
Extent:
1 volume (257 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/735/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/735/1
Title:
File 1000/1918 Pt 3 'Persia: situation & policy'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence regarding affairs in Persia [Iran] in May-November 1918 during the First World War, including: Military actions within Persia, particularly those in northern Persia involving Dunsterforce, the Allied military force commanded by General Lionel Dunsterville The resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1918-10 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/966
Title:
File 566/1921 ‘Persia: military Attaché’s intelligence summaries’
Scope & Content:
This volume is a compilation of intelligence summaries on Persia [Iran] between August 1920 and October 1923. The intelligence summaries are mostly divided into monthly or weekly reports, regarding different aspects of the social, economic and political situation in Persia. The intelligence summ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1920-28 Nov 1923
Extent:
1 volume (403 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/6
Title:
PZ 320/31 'Persia: closing of the Soviet Consulate at Seistan.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, printed correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the closure of the Soviet consulate at Seistan [Sīstān va Balūchestān]. The discussion in the volume relates to the impact of the closure on Soviet support for communists in India, the departure ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1930-5 Feb 1931
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/18
Title:
PZ 2143/31 'Persia: British Military Attaché, Tehran'
Scope & Content:
Thefile contains correspondence regarding a request from the Imperial Court ofPersia for the recall of Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Dodd as British MilitaryAttaché, due to a perceived slight by Dodd towards Reza Shah Pahlavi. The filealso covers an order from the Shah for Persian army officers to no ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Feb 1931-27 Sep 1932
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/347

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/347
Title:
PZ 1217/1940 'Persia: Kurdistan tribal situation'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the tribal situation in Kurdistan in 1933, and an alleged increase in Kurdish nationalist feeling in 1940 in Iraq and Iran. The main correspondents are Alan Charles Trott (Military Attaché in Tehran) in 1933, and Reader William Bullard (HM Minister at Tehran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1933-16 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/528
Title:
Ext 3703/41 'Reactions in Middle East (expt. Afghanistan) to Russo-German war.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Office, HM Ambassador at Tehran and the Military Attaché, Tehran, regarding the positive reaction in Iran to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and describes an attempt by the Secretary of State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1941-3 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 39
Title:
‘Copy of Map showing Territories adjacent to the Frontier’
Scope & Content:
A copy of a large-scale map of Persia, referred to in an agreement between the British and Persian Governments of 27 December 1895. Notes on the map indicate three boundary lines: a red and green solid frontier line, as drawn by Major Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John in 1872; a dotted blue line...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 map

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 54
Title:
Map of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s proposed frontier between Persia and Baluchistan
Scope & Content:
Copy of a map showing Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s proposed frontier between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], referred to in the agreement of 27 December 1895 between the Governments of Persia and Britain. The original of the map was signed by Lieutenant-Colonel He...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3430
Title:
Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and notes relating to the law of succession in Persia [Iran], and possible events in Persia, in the event of the death of the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes: Correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, dated 1 March 1930, informing Government of the death in Fran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Jan 1926-30 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)