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1. IOR/L/PS/10/643

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/643
Title:
File 81/1917 'Arabia: Arab revolt. Arab Prisoners'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the recruitment of Arab prisoners of war held in India, formerly with the Ottoman Army, for service in the Arab Revolt under the Sherif [of Mecca] (later referred to as the King of Hejaz) [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, Emir and Sherif of Mecca, later King of Hejaz]. A request for...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1916-12 Feb 1919
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/532
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 1 ‘German War:- Turkey. Prisoners’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to British prisoners of war in Baghdad, detained in the wake of the commencement of hostilities between Britain and Turkey in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: the status of British subjects including British Indians in Baghdad; reports of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Dec 1914-31 Dec 1915
Extent:
1 volume (217 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/534
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jan 1916-5 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/465
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 5 ‘German War. Turkey. Hodeida consuls incident’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the incarceration by Turkish authorities of the British Vice-Consul at Hodeida (also spelt Hodeidah) [Al-Ḥudaydah], George Alexander Richardson, Richardson’s wife, Mary Richardson, and the French Vice-Consul at Hodeida, Monsieur Roux, in the wake of the destruction of a Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1914-16 Apr 1917
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/533

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/533
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 3 ‘German War:- Turkey. Payments to British subjects in Turkish territory &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the advance of financial relief to British Indians stranded in Baghdad and elsewhere in Ottoman territory, in the wake of Britain’s invasion of Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: proposals for funds to be forwarded to and distributed by the United States Con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1922
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/535
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 5 ‘German War – Turkey; Turkish & Arab prisoners in India – Sayyid Talib, &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Ottoman government officials who were detained as prisoners of war by the British occupying force (Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’) at Basra in late November 1914, and sent to India for the duration of the war. The majority of the papers concern two prisoners (Seyyid Talib Bey ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1920
Extent:

1 volume (223 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/667

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/667
Title:
File 978/1917 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia and Persia: occupation of Baghdad; protection of holy places'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the protection of Shiah Holy Places and Persian subjects by the British Government after the occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Related matters of discussion include the following: the situation in d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Mar 1917-2 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 volume (199 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/613

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/613
Title:
File 3360/1916 Pt 2 'Persian correspondence. (1917-18)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1917-18. Topics discussed include: A statement (ff 96-97) of South Persia Rifles policy for Southern Persia by the Inspector General...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1918
Extent:
1 volume (335 folios)