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1. IOR/L/MIL/5/803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/803
Title:
Correspondence, Telegrams and Notes on Persia, 1917-1919: Situation in Persia
Scope & Content:
This file contains material relating to a review of politico-military conditions in Persia [Iran], following the revelation of Turkish plans to invade Persia in order to reach Afghanistan, which would in turn have threatened the British Empire in India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1917-May 1918
Extent:
3 files (444 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/804
Title:
Correspondence, telegrams and notes on Persia, 1917-1919: Eastern Persian Cordon
Scope & Content:
The papers in this file relate to the Eastern Persia Cordon. The papers include: the telegram from the British Consul in Sistan on road-making (18 October 1918); The number of British officers in the Sistan and Khorasan Levy Corps (29 October 1918); the possibility of recruiting Hazara men for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1917-Oct 1918
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 70
Title:
‘Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. I’
Scope & Content:
The key to the map indicates: roads actually in use with wheeled vehicles; roads fit for passage of wheeled artillery; camel tracks; railway lines; telegraph lines and telegraph offices; post offices; boundaries, both demarcated and undemarcated. Also indicated are rivers and waterways; settlemen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1930
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, ff 68-69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, ff 68-69
Title:
‘Map of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkistan) To Accompany Military Report, 1929.’
Scope & Content:
Map of the Sinkiang [Xinjiang] province of China. The map is split across two sheets, the first (labelled ‘No. 1’) being the western half of the area covered, and the second (labelled ‘No. 2’) the eastern half. Both sheets have an inset map, showing the complete area of the larger map. The scale...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 map on 2 sheets

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 229

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 229
Title:
‘Map of S. W. Persia’
Scope & Content:
Sheet no. 1 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 230
Title:
Map of southwest Persia, sheet no. 2
Scope & Content:
Sheet no. 2 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

7. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 231
Title:
Map of southwest Persia, sheet no. 3
Scope & Content:
Sheet no. 3 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 232

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9, f 232
Title:
Map of southwest Persia, sheet no. 3A
Scope & Content:
Sheet no. 1 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 map

9. IOR/L/PS/10/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/104
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/105
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence: the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of infl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 volume (382 folios)