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1. IOR/L/MIL/5/779

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/779
Title:
Policy - Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the Mesopotamia Campaign of the First World War during May-December 1917. The correspondence discusses strategy, provisioning and recruitment. It is particularly concerned with a perceived unreliability as allies of Russian forces in Mesopotamia [Iraq]....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1917-20 Dec 1917
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3265

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3265
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 28. PART II. (From 16th to 30th November 1916).’
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 30 November 1916. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these pape...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1916-30 Nov 1916
Extent:

1 volume (120 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 303-366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 303-366
Title:
The Anglo-Persian War: The Despatch of a Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse to the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 23 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 17 January-2 February 1857. The item comprises correspondence, by letter and electric tel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/190/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/190/1
Title:
File 21/1911 Pt 1 'Aden Protectorate:- Italian & French recruitment of Arabs.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the recruitment by the governments of Italy and France of natives of the British protectorate of Aden for military and colonial policing purposes. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, Aden; the Viceroy of India; and senior officials of the Foreign Office, the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1905-13 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 item

5. IOR/L/PS/10/317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/317
Title:
File 4853/1912 ‘Persia. Military Attaché at Meshed.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, and other papers, relating to the appointment and retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed, Persia [Mashhad, Iran]. Correspondence is exchanged between representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, and the Army Department of the Viceroy (Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1924
Extent:

1 volume (203 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/515

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/515
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: administration; personnel; military officers appointed to civil administration'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains requests for skilled personnel from British civil and military authorities in newly occupied territory in Iraq written between 1916 and 1920, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India. The papers primarily consist of letters from Basra or Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1916-4 Feb 1920
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/579

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/579
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to military operations in Persia in 1916 and Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes' mission to create a military force. Topics discussed in the correspondence include: The proposed increase of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (491 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/748
Title:
File 2835/1918 'Persia: East Persia (Seistan and Khorasan) Levy Corps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers regarding the Sistan Levy Corps [also written as Seistan Levy Corps in the file] and the Khorasan Levy Corps, British military units in East Persia [Iran] formed from local recruits during the First World War. Topics discussed include: issues ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1918-30 Nov 1925
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/874
Title:
File 7512/1919 ‘MESOPOTAMIA – LEVIES’
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of papers relating to the Arab and Kurdish Levies in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers include correspondence from the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia at Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this volume), Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, to the India Office, mostl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1919-14 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 volume (181 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/712

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/712
Title:
Ext 2401/42 'Middle East: recruitment of RAF levies'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, the India Office, the RAF (Royal Air Force) Headquarters in the Middle East, the Minister of State in Cairo, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the British Envoy in Baghdad, and discusses the recruitment of 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1942-29 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)