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1. IOR/X/14717

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14717
Title:
North Borneo 1:5,000 Sandakan Area
Scope & Content:
Topographic map series with contours, showing landscape features, vegetation, buildings and communications, published by Directorate of Colonial Surveys, D.C.S. 31A. Compiled and drawn by Directorate of Colonial Surveys from control supplied by Survey Dept. North Borneo. Air photography by R.A.F....
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
6 sheets

2. IOR/X/12177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12177
Title:
The India Base
Scope & Content:
Top Secret, amended in manuscript to Restricted, issued by C.-In-C.'s Secretariat, G.H.Q., India, January 1945. Ref. No. 158/C in C Sectt. Copy No. 112. Maps are HIND MISC and are reproduced by G.S.G.S. Rep. Sec. Jan. 1945.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 pamphlet (28 pages plus appendices)

3. IOR/X/12055

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12055
Title:
[Medina-Mecca]
Scope & Content:
Shows topographical features, wells, springs and the presence or absence of water, vegetation, railways, routes, telegraph lines and settlements. The coastline shows soundings.Extensive manuscript additions in black ink and coloured pencil note relative strengths of military forces.The base map h...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 sheet

4. IOR/X/14721

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14721
Title:
'Palestine' GSGS 3743
Scope & Content:
Two copies each of two parts of a topographical map of Palestine at 1 inch to 3.95 miles, showing landscape features, especially waterways, roads and railways, settlements, some buildings, navigation infrastructure, and spot heights and depressions. G.S.G.S. No. 3743. War Office, 1924. Correction...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
4 sheets

5. IOR/X/12045

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12045
Title:
Sketch Map of Turkey in Asia
Scope & Content:
GSGS No. 2713? Published by the War Office. Shows rivers, main settlements, roads and railways of two different gauges and those under construction over a large area of the Middle East. A note printed in the left margin describes some of the principal railway lines. Part of the top left and top r...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 sheet

6. IOR/X/12086

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12086
Title:
'Bengal and Assam' O.R. 5682
Scope & Content:
O.R. outline map 5682 covering present-day Bangladesh, with parts of Myanmar and other adjacent countries, produced by Geographical Section, General Staff, (W.O.) 1942.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 sheet

7. IOR/X/12085

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12085
Title:
'West Pakistan' O.R. 6540
Scope & Content:
Three copies of outline map O.R. 6540, covering Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of India, Tibet and Nepal, produced by Geographical Section, General Staff, (W.O.) 1948. Two copies have place names added in manuscript.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
3 sheets

8. IOR/X/14715

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14715
Title:
'Ceylon, one inch to one mile, GSGS 4329', War Office
Scope & Content:
Two sheets from topographical map series GSGS 4329. Published and photolithographed by the War Office.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947-1949
Extent:
2 sheets

9. IOR/X/14729

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14729
Title:
'Ceylon, One Inch to One Mile', War Office
Scope & Content:
Two sheets from the first edition of topographical map series GSGS 4329, photolithographed and published by War Office 1942. The maps show contours, (including bathymetrical), landscape features, settlements and communications, boundaries, and estates and their principal products. They each have ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1949
Extent:
2 sheets

10. IOR/X/12175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12175
Title:
Maps: Standard Scales of Issue (Arranged by Arms of the Service), 1943
Scope & Content:
Restricted. The pamphlet contains a foreword and table of numbers of standard maps issued, classified as small, medium or large scale, for all units and formations. Units and formations are grouped under the following headings: (1) Armoured Corps; (2) Artillery; (3) Engineers; (4) Signals; (5) In...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 pamphlet (8 pages)