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31. IOR/L/PS/18/B225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B225
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey, Indian Army, Political Agent, Kuwait to Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political Department, India Office
Scope & Content:
The letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey to Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel encloses a copy of a letter No. C/8 of 1915 by Grey, as Political Agent in Kuwait, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 June 1915, regarding Arab co-operation with the Turks in the Shatt al-Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1915
Extent:

2 folios

32. IOR/L/PS/18/B233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B233
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Memorandum by Political Department, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, dated 25 May 1916, examining the implications of war with Turkey on Great Britain particularly the importance to Germany of a Turco-Ottoman alliance and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the corresponding importance of its dissolution to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

4 folios

33. IOR/L/PS/18/B234

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B234
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Note by the Under Secretary, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Note written by Sir Thomas William Holderness, Under Secretary of State, India Office, in response to Sir Arthur Hirtzel's memorandum on the war with Turkey (IOR/L/PS/18/B233). The note describes the recommendations of the Inter-Department Committee on Asiatic Turkey, which Sir Thomas Holderne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

34. 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)

35. IOR/L/PS/18/B358

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B358
Title:
"Situation in Middle East" (Note by Major Bray, Political Intelligence Officer, attached to India Office)
Scope & Content:
Intelligence report by Major Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, Political Intelligence Officer attached to the India Office, on Soviet activities and influence in the Middle East and the implications for British interests in the region. The document was prepared as a departmental minute. It discusses s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 file (15 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/18/B380

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B380
Title:
‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the border between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Turkey, and was prepared by Alwyn Parker of the Foreign Office. There are a number of labels at the top of the first page: ‘Persia’, ‘Confidential’ and ‘Section 10’. The memorandum sections are as follows: Part I. A preface...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1912
Extent:

1 file (41 folios, 5 maps)

37. IOR/L/PS/20/C134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C134
Title:
'LINES OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TURKEY AND PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled LINES OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TURKEY AND PERSIA, and is a description of the British lines of communication between the Ottoman Empire and Persia [Iran]. It was produced in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and was printed by the Government Monotype Pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (62 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/20/C204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C204
Title:
‘IRAQ COMMAND REPORT APRIL, 1924-NOVEMBER, 1926.’
Scope & Content:
This volume is a report submitted to the British Air Ministry by Air Vice-Marshal John Frederick Andrews Higgins. It consists of a chronological narrative of significant military events in Iraq during his time as Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq, from April 1924 until November 1926...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1924-Nov 1926
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/20/E96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E96
Title:
A précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan. By Lt A T Wilson, Acting Consul for Arabistan
Scope & Content:
This volume was published by the Superintendent Government Printing in Calcutta in 1912 and marked as very confidential. The first part of the volume concerns the Relations of the British Government with the tribes and shaikhs of Arabistan and included list of officials in Arabistan (folio 6) and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/1/724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/724
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Turkish Expansion on the Arab Littoral of the Persian Gulf and Hasa and Katif [al-Qaṭīf] Affairs
Scope & Content:
The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Precis of Turkish Expansion on the Arab Littoral of the Persian Gulf and Hasa and Katif Affairs (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume charts the history and internal affairs of Hasa and Katif [al-Qaṭīf] from early t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 volume (78 folios)