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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name War Office, 1857-1964

111. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/77
Title:
Summary of Papers Dealing with the Transfer of the Control of the Operations in Mesopotamia from the India Office to the War Office
Scope & Content:
This file is a printed report entitled 'Summary of Papers Dealing with the Transfer of the Control of the Operations in Mesopotamia from the India Office to the War Office', printed by the Government of India Army Department (Simla: 1916). It consists of two sections: the first outlines the detai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (9 folios)

112. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/13
Title:
Summary of the Hejaz revolt
Scope & Content:
This report was prepared by the General Staff, War Office, 31 Aug 1918. It is a summary of the Hejaz revolt from outbreak in June 1916 to December 1918. Includes account of the attack on the Hejaz railway by Arab forces and T H Lawrence. Appendices on King Hussein; Ibn Saud; Ibn Rashid; the Jem...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

16 folios

113. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/26
Title:
The situation in Turkey, 15th March, 1920
Scope & Content:
The file details the situation in Turkey as of 15 March 1920, and presents the potential consequences, for both the Turks and the Allies, of presenting Turkey with a peace treaty which is too severe. It is Written by the General Staff, War Office. It is broken down into two parts and 4 appendice...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1920
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

114. IOR/L/PS/10/85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/85
Title:
File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about government expenditure on the Government of India post of Military Attaché at the British Consulate General at Meshed in Persia. The main correspondents are senior officials in London at the Foreign Office, India Office, War ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1904-16 Nov 1911
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

115. IOR/L/PS/10/317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/317
Title:
File 4853/1912 ‘Persia. Military Attaché at Meshed.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, and other papers, relating to the appointment and retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed, Persia [Mashhad, Iran]. Correspondence is exchanged between representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, and the Army Department of the Viceroy (Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1924
Extent:

1 volume (203 folios)

116. IOR/L/PS/10/387/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/387/1
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Policy towards Bin Saud (Capt. Shakespear's Mission)'
Scope & Content:
Part 4 primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], following the outbreak of the First World War. It includes the following: discussion regarding Bin Saud's relations with the Ottoman government, and the need for the British to secur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1914-17 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 item (211 folios)

117. IOR/L/PS/10/389/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/389/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
Part 8 primarily concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. Included are the following: discussion as to which ruler has the stronger claim to Khurma, and whether Bin Saud shou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1918-26 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 item (300 folios)

118. IOR/L/PS/10/390/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 10 'N.W. Frontier: Proposed Russian zoological expedition'
Scope & Content:
The title provided at the beginning of this item does not relate in any way to the item's contents. Part 10 is in fact concerned with the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 May 1919-13 Jan 1920
Extent:

1 item (330 folios)

119. IOR/L/PS/10/391/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/391/2
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 12 'ARABIA: RELATIONS WITH BIN SAUD (AMIR OF NEJD) (HEJAZ-NEJD BOUNDARY DISPUTE)'
Scope & Content:
Part 12 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. Much of the correspondence relates to (unsucces...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1920-21 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 item (223 folios)

120. IOR/L/PS/10/407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/407
Title:
File 3463/1913 ‘Aden Frontier Proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains India Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, mainly about the latter’s proposal to seek ratification of the Aden boundary settlement of 1905, as part of British counter-concessions to be tabled at the Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention negotiations in London, 1913-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:

1 volume (130 folios)