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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Chief of the General Staff, India, 1906-1947 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/458
Title:
File 2877/1914 'Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia: survey operations of RIMS Palinurus'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the survey of the Persian Gulf by RIMS Palinurus. The discussion in the volume relates to the objectives, route, and associated costs of the survey of the Persian Gulf. Further discussion surrounds t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1916
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/612

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/612
Title:
File 3360/1916 Pt 1 'Persian correspondence (1916-17)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1916-17. Topics discussed include: the activities of the German Vice-Consul, Bushire, Wilhelm Wassmuss, including reports of an atta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (398 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/614

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/614
Title:
File 3360/1916 Pt 3 'Persian correspondence. (1918-22)'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters telegrams, and memoranda comprising miscellaneous correspondence from the Government of India. A number of topics are covered in the correspondence including: use of aeroplanes in South Persia a note by General Douglas on policy in Fars the view of the General Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1922
Extent:
1 volume (329 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/650/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/650/1
Title:
File 464/1917 Pt 1 'German War - Persia. Bushire hinterland operations'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to military operations in the hinterland of Bushire [Bushehr] in Persia [Iran], mainly concerning the advisability and practicability of more active operations, with regard to the season and the force available. It consists of correspondence, as well as India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1916-6 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 item (80 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/847/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/8
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 8 'MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION: LAND ACQUISITION OF LAND AT MAGIL: INCIDENCE OF COST'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part eight of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to the acquisition of land by the British for military purposes. The part is largely concerned with the a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Aug 1917-7 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 item (93 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/478
Title:
PZ 758/41 'The Handbook of the Persian Army, 1925.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from the Chief of the General Staff to the Secretary of the India Office, Military Department, providing instructions regarding the safekeeping and subsequently the destruction of four copies of The Handbook of the Persian Army.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1940-15 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C133
Title:
Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — signed by Lieutenant-General Percy Lake, Chief of the Indian General Staff — considers whether Britain should accept Russian demands that the proposed Trans-Persian Railway should be routed via Kerman. It examines the potential strategic advantages to Russia, the consequent pote...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1913
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/10
Title:
The Illicit Trade in Arms and Ammunition Between the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
The file consists of notes and appendices providing a history of the arms trade up to 1908, prepared by C M Gibbon of the Persian Section of the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department, Government of India. A preface is included by Wilfrid Malleson, Division of Chief of Genera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1908-Sep 1908
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)