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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3283
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 37. PART II. (From 16th to 31st August 1917).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 16 and 31 August 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1917-31 Aug 1917
Extent:
1 volume (260 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/51/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern relations between Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] and the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]; particularly in regard to the purchase by the Shaikh of date gardens at Fao [Al Fāw] on the Shatt-al-Arab, and property at Fadaghia, near ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jan 1908-18 Sep 1912
Extent:

199 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/10/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/169
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 2 Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; buoyage of Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters, reports and memoranda concerning the lighting and buoyage of the Shatt al-Arab. Correspondence discusses the poor state of the buoys and need for repainting; a re-survey of the Shatt al-Arab in order the prevent the Germans from gaining influence. Also discussed is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/305
Title:
File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to lighting and buoying installed by the Turkish Government in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence discusses concerns over the erection of a Turkish lighthouse in Fao and the basis upon which a protest could...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2880
Title:
Coll 17/19 ‘Iraq: Sheikh of Koweit’s Fao Date Gardens’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mainly correspondence and India Office Minute Papers, relating to the Shaikh of Koweit’s [Kuwait’s] date gardens at Fao [Al-Faw] in Iraq. It includes correspondence concerning: Unrest among the fellaheen [agricultural labourers or peasants] on the Fao estates in 1933, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1933-25 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (337 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2883
Title:
Coll 17/22(1) ‘Iraq: Iraq-Koweit Relations. Iraqi incursions into Koweiti territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to alleged incidents occurring on or near the border between Iraq and Kuwait (Koweit). It mostly concerns alleged incidents of Iraqi police in armed cars making incursions into Kuwait territory, and alleged incidents of violation of Kuwaiti territorial waters by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1934-31 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (585 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2896

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2896
Title:
Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to a tour by Sir Basil Newton, HM Ambassador to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, visiting Sharja [Sharjah], Muscat, Bahrain, Basra, Fao [Al-Faw], and Abadan. The file mostly consists of the following: Correspondence between the India Office (Rol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1940-28 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B101
Title:
Memorandum by Mr Bertie on Questions with the Porte in the Persian Gulf, August 1892 to October 1893.
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, written by Francis Leveson Bertie of the Foreign Office, 15 October 1893, discusses questions relating to the Guttur or El-Katr [Qatar] following rumours that the Ottoman Government intended to separate England from the Sheikhs on the Arabian Coastline of the Persian Gulf that ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1893
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B112
Title:
Note on the Turkish Fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. (With Sketch Map of the Shat-el-Arab.) 1883 to 1897.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum of the events and correspondence relating to the Turkish construction of a fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. The memorandum reproduces a number of representations made by the British Government both directly to the Turkish Porte and through the Persian Government, objecting to the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jun 1897
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/471-549

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/471-549
Title:
File 53: Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait subject files cover a comprehensive range of topics related to Kuwait and the surrounding area. The files contain correspondence regarding the nature and development of the British Government's involvement in Kuwait, Kuwait's foreign relations (notably with the Ottoman Empire, Najd/Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish
Date Range:
1896-1939
Extent:
79 files and volumes (16,694 folios)