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1. IOR/L/PS/12/2888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2888
Title:
Coll 17/26 'Iraq. Army.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Iraqi armed forces, mostly concerning the introduction of conscription in Iraq under a system of National Service. The file also includes papers regarding the military policy of the Government of Iraq, and the concern of the chief of the Iraqi General Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1933-21 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3507
Title:
Coll 28/97(2) ‘Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
Scope & Content:
Typewritten copies of fortnightly intelligence summaries, prepared by the Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/97(2) ‘Persia diaries: Tehran Intelligence Summaries 1947’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3506). It covers: political affairs in Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1948-21 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2037

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2037
Title:
Coll 5/75 ‘Persia: RAF flights over Persian Territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small amount of correspondence between ministries of the British Government as a result of a request for confirmation – from the Government of India – that Royal Air Force (RAF) planes may fly over Iran for photographic reconnaissance without prior reference to the Iranian Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1941-11 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/247
Title:
'Interim amendments to "M.T. routes in Persia". Vol, 2. Minor Routes.'
Scope & Content:
The interim amendments are comprised of a list of routes through Persia compiled by the mechanical transport (M T). For each route the start and end destinations are given along with following: the total distance; references to maps showing the route; general notes and a report which breaks dow...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:

1 file (48 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3491B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3491B
Title:
Coll 28/85(3) ‘Persia; appointment of Col Wheeler to Tehran for publicity purposes’
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence dated 1946 concerning the transfer of Colonel Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler from the Department of Information and Arts in the Government of India, to the post of Press Counsellor at the Public Relations Bureau at the British Embassy in Tehran. The transfer was arranged bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1946-30 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/133
Title:
PZ 2031/35 'Mines and Mining Concessions in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to mines and mining concessions in Persia. Correspondence discusses German mining ventures in relation to nickel, copper and gold deposits in Anarek and contracts between the Government of Iran and German c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1935-20 Aug 1943
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/378
Title:
PZ 2749/40 'Persia: Sardar Muhammed Amir Khan Nauroi'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from HM Consul General in Khorasan, Meshed (Giles Frederick Squire) to the Secretary of the Government of India External Affairs Department. The letter discusses and includes a report from HM Vice Consul, Zabul concerning his meeting with the Sarder [Sardir] Muhammad A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1940-15 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3504
Title:
Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
Scope & Content:
Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the India Office via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (373 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/380B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/380B
Title:
PZ 2885/40 'Proposed trade mission to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a decipher telegram from the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Secretary of State for India regarding trade opportunities and the desirability of a war trade agreement with Iran. The telegram also refers to concerns over Iranian exports to Germany, and tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/1224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1224
Title:
Ext 5000/47(2) 'Persian situation: miscellaneous reports'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers that discuss Anglo-American perspectives on domestic Iranian politics during 1948, in the run-up to the Iranian Constituent Assembly election of 1949. The majority of the papers are secret diplomatic dispatches between various British diplomats based in Washington, Londo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1948-8 Feb 1949
Extent:
1 file (175 folios)