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41. IOR/L/PS/18/B298

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B298
Title:
'Settlement of Turkey and Arabian Peninsula. Note by India Office on Foreign Office memorandum'.
Scope & Content:
The note was written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel for the India Office, 30 Nov 1918, and consists of remarks on three points drawn out from the Foreign Office memorandum: The Trucial System - disputing the assumptions made in the original memo that Great Britain effectively kept the peace over...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios

42. IOR/L/PS/18/B337

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B337
Title:
Despatch from Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, to Secretary of State for India
Scope & Content:
This printed report contains a despatch (No 344436/75/19) from Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia at Baghdad, to Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India, dated 15 November 1919, enclosing a note by Miss Gertrude Lowthian Bell, Oriental Sec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1919
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/18/B339

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B339
Title:
Syria and Mesopotamia: Anglo-French declaration of 8 November 1918
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a copy of the 'Syria and Mesopotamia: Anglo-French declaration of 8 November 1918'. It is written in French and expresses the wishes of Britain and France to liberate those they feel have been 'too long oppressed by the Turks' by helping them to install functional government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Nov 1918
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

44. IOR/L/PS/20/263, f 152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/263, f 152
Title:
Sketch Maps to Shew Railways in Asia Minor
Scope & Content:
A War Office map, dated January 1907. The map shows the following railway lines: British; French; Anglo-Franco-German; the Baghdad Railway System; the Anatolian Railway; Turkish Railways; Egyptian 'State' Railways; and Russian Railways. The map also marks out the Ordu Territorial Districts [co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1907
Extent:
1 map

45. IOR/R/15/1/572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/572
Title:
File 61/11 IX (D 159) Nejd-Hejaz Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and reports relating to the affairs of Saudi Arabia. Most of the correspondence is between the British Legation in Jeddah, the Political Residency in Bushire, the Foreign Office in London, the Political Agencies in Kuwait and Bahrain, the India Office i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1939-16 Jan 1942
Extent:
1 volume (192 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/535
Title:
‘File 13/31 Middle East Air Services’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence sent between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency, the British Legation in Damascus, and Foreign Office officials. The correspondence relates to the set-up of reciprocal air routes between British and Syrian authorities; specifically,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1948-7 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

47. IOR/W/L/PS/18/B356 (ii)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/18/B356 (ii)
Title:
MAP NO.2: SOUTHERN FRONTIER OF TURKEY IN ASIA
Scope & Content:
This map shows Turkey where it is included in Asia and indicates the boundaries between Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and the Old Frontier. The map also indicates relief with contours. The map includes a printing statement which reads '(B 16479) WT 18378-212.5050.10/20.H&S,LTD.'
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920?
Extent:
1 map

48. Mss Eur F112/265

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/265
Title:
War Cabinet Papers Relating to Syria and the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916
Scope & Content:
The file chiefly comprises correspondence, memoranda, and newspaper cuttings relating to the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 and British policy in former Ottoman territories following the end of the First World War. Many of the papers were printed and prepared for the War Cabinet (from March 1918,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
11 Apr 1917-21 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

49. Mss Eur F112/552, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/552, f 7
Title:
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With manuscript annotations relating to the Hejaz railway
Scope & Content:
Bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1915'. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, roads, railways, telegraphs, settlements, place names and international boundaries. Manuscript annotations highlight four sites on the Hejaz rai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1917?
Extent:

1 map sheet

50. Mss Eur F112/552, f 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/552, f 14
Title:
'Map of Syria'. With manuscript additions
Scope & Content:
Created by the War Office. Bears the imprint 'G[eographical].S[ection].G[eneral].S[taff]. No. 2904'. Covers Syria together with the geographical region of Palestine, present-day Jordan and Lebanon, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 map sheet