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1. IOR/L/PS/10/506

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/506
Title:
File 3540/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Interpreters file'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to civilian officers under the Government of India volunteering for military or naval service during the First World War. Correspondents include officials of the War Office and the India Office. The volum...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1914-1 Mar 1915
Extent:
1 volume (166 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/511

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/511
Title:
File 3540/1914 Pt 10-15 'German War: Officers Lent to War Office'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to civilian officers under the Government of India volunteering for military service with the War Office during the First World War. Topics discussed include the activities of officers on loan, such as inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1917- 17 Nov 1920
Extent:
1 volume (263 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/529
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Banks at Basra +c. - the Eastern Bank'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mostly related to the Eastern Bank being invited by the Secretary of State for India to open a branch at Basra and to conduct the banking business of the Government of India at Basra. It also includes papers relating to: the Eastern Bank offer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1915-23 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 volume (212 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/299
Title:
PZ 5098/39 'Position of Major G S de Gaury vis-á-vis military service in the event of war'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to Major Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury, the Political Agent in Kuwait, and the possibility that he will be called up for military service. Letters between de Gaury; Roland Tennyson Peel (Secretary for the Political Department in the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1939-8 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3818

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3818
Title:
Coll 30/99 'Koweit & Bahrain Nationality. Date of institution of.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a request from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs for information concerning the date of the independence of Koweit [Kuwait] and Bahrain from Ottoman control, and therefore the date at which the nationality of the two states commenced. Various views are advanced in the corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1933-1 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3822

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3822
Title:
Coll 30/103 'Basidu: Position of the inhabitants of Basidu in the event of evacuation by His Majesty's Government.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns discussions over the position of the inhabitants of Basidu [on the island of Qeshm], in the event of its evacuation by the British Government. Basidu was a former naval depot that had been under British control since [circa] 1820. However, in the opinion of the Law Officers, Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Oct 1933-29 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (202 folios)