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037-000554997 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name War Office, 1857-1964

1. IOR/L/PS/12/570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/570
Title:
Ext 5317/41(S) 'Co-ordination of sabotage + subversive activities in the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, many of which are annotated by hand, between the Foreign Office and the Ministers of States stationed in Cairo, Ankara, Baghdad, Moscow, Tehran, and the Government of India. The correspondence is regarding the Sub-committee of the Middl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1941-29 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/300
Title:
PZ 5277/1939 'War - Offers of service in the event of -'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to individuals offering their services, mainly to the India Office or the Foreign Office, in the event of war, and for war work after the outbreak of the Second World War. The individuals concerned were offering their services in regions including: Tibet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1939-5 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/87
Title:
PZ 7629/33 'Persia: Persian armaments'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding actual and attempted purchases of armaments and military equipment by Persia. The primary correspondents are: War Office; India Office; Foreign Office; British Legation, Tehran; Export Credits Guarantee Department. Folios 91-177 cover War Office reports of arm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1933-6 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/806
Title:
Ext 1463/43 'Chinese mission to the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Military Attaché in China and the Commander-in-Chiefs in India and the Middle East as of March 1943. The mission starts from Chungking via Calcutta to Cairo. The mission was comprised of Major-General Hoo Hsien Chung, Major-General Lam Wai Ching, Col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1943-15 Mar 1943
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1222
Title:
Ext 2919/47 'Request for General Staff maps of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, etc)'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a request made by the Iraq Petroleum Company to the Commonwealth Relations Office for three maps of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. The Iraq Petroleum Company asks that the maps be sheets of the 1:500,000 series of maps issued by the General S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1947-5 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/410
Title:
PZ 4618/40 'Saudi-Arabia. Geographical Maps of -'
Scope & Content:
The file contains reproductions of a map of north-eastern Saudi Arabia and of a road map of Hasa Province, Saudi Arabia, originally prepared by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company. The file also contains correspondence between the War Office, the India Office, the Political Agent, Bahre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1940-18 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/572
Title:
Ext 5440/41 'Supply of foodstuffs to Persia'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between the War Office, Secretary of State of India, Government of India, HM Ambassador to Iran, and the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf regarding the distribution of military and civil supplies to Persia. Topics discussed include: Using foodstuff prov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1941-12 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/299
Title:
PZ 5098/39 'Position of Major G S de Gaury vis-á-vis military service in the event of war'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to Major Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury, the Political Agent in Kuwait, and the possibility that he will be called up for military service. Letters between de Gaury; Roland Tennyson Peel (Secretary for the Political Department in the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1939-8 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/311
Title:
Persia: supply of dynamite, etc to the Persian Government
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a request from the Persian Government for supplies of dynamite. The request is passed from the Iranian Consul-General to the Government of India, Department of Supply, who refer the matter to the Foreign Office out of concern for what they feel is an '...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1939-2 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/271
Title:
PZ 8361/38 'Employment of German nationals in oil installations in the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of papers regarding an investigation by the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East relating to the employment of German nationals in oil installations, particularly by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited and Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1938-May 1939
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)