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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (1941) Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3407
Title:
Coll 28/10(2) ‘Persia; Diaries; Meshed Consular June 1940; Khorassan Political; Khorassan Fortnightly Reports’
Scope & Content:
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/10 ‘Persia. Diaries; Meshed Consular Jany 1931 – May 1940. Khorassan Political 1934 – May 1940. Khorassan Fortnightly Reports’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3406), and contains political diary reports, submitted fortnightly (and then monthly from late 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1940-28 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (647 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3503
Title:
Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’
Scope & Content:
Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), and received by the India Office via the Foreign Office. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover she...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (401 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/722

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/722
Title:
‘File 28/30 War. Hostilities in Iran’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers produced in response to Britain’s involvement in the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, which began on 25 August 1941. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1941-29 Jan 1942
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)