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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Aden, Arabian Peninsula

401. IOR/L/PS/18/B227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B227
Title:
Present political situation in our hinterland and beyond the border
Scope & Content:
The main document is a note written by Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob, First Assistant Resident, Aden, and outlines the current situation in Aden with a view to encouraging the British Government to take military action against the 'Turkish incursion' in Yemen. In the attached covering l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

402. IOR/L/PS/18/B228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B228
Title:
[Letter] from Brigadier-General C H U Price, Political Resident, Aden, to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter by Brigadier-General Charles Henry Uvedale Price in which he forwards a report on a visit to the Idrissi [Idrisi] Saiyid by Major Charles Richard Bradshaw, General Staff, Aden, to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay. The documents discuss the cam...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

403. IOR/L/PS/18/B231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B231
Title:
The Aden Protecorate
Scope & Content:
The file opens with a letter by Brigadier-General William Crawford Walton, General Officer Commanding, Aden, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department. The letter outlines four options for how the British may best handle the current political situation in Aden, a Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

404. IOR/L/PS/18/B232

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B232
Title:
'[Letter] from the General Officer Commanding and Political Resident, Aden, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, Simla'
Scope & Content:
This note on the effects of the Arab rising on Aden and its hinterland, with special reference to the possible action of the Turks, was forwarded from the General Officer Commanding and Political Resident in Aden, William C Walton, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Depart...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

405. IOR/L/PS/18/B242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B242
Title:
Territorial re-adjustments. Extract from Secret Letter from the Government of India, No 85, dated 29 September 1916
Scope & Content:
This letter relates to the post-war disposal of captured territories such as Iraq and German East Africa. The Government of India presents its opinions regarding three main areas: the surrender or retention of captured territories relating to Indian interests; obsolete treaty rights and territor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

406. IOR/L/PS/18/B247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B247
Title:
British interests in Arabia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in January 1917. Its purpose is to explain 'why the exclusion of Italy from Western and Southern Arabia and the Red Sea littoral is important in British interests'. It notes the importance of Arabia lying as it does along two of the main...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

407. IOR/L/PS/18/B255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B255
Title:
'MESOPOTAMIAN ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE. DRAFT REPORT OF COMMITTEE.'
Scope & Content:
The draft report of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee containing recommendations made by the committee. These recommendations include: The occupied territories of Mesopotamia being administered in the future by His Majesty's Government and not by the Government of India; The Basra Vilay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

408. IOR/L/PS/18/B264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B264
Title:
Aden. The political situation in the hinterland.
Scope & Content:
This document describes the current political situation in Aden as a result of the fact that Turkish [Ottoman] troops have been allowed to take control of various parts of the Protectorate at various points over the previous two years. The India Office believes that a greater show of strength is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1917
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

409. IOR/L/PS/18/B369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B369
Title:
Aden. Future administration and incidence of cost.
Scope & Content:
Minutes, telegrams and a memorandum relating to the future administration of Aden and the costs incurred thereby, as follows: Minute by Mr Henry Fraser Howard, Controller of Finance, India Office (ff 120-125), in which he states the position before the First World War relating to the division of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1921-Sep 1921
Extent:

1 file (44 folios)

410. IOR/L/PS/18/B378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B378
Title:
Memorandum on Aden Expenditure
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum produced by the Financial Department of the India Office containing a summary of the civil and military administration charges for Aden c 1900 onwards. It details the capital expenditure incurred by the Government of India; the question of settlement; the consequ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)