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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name South Persia Rifles, 1916-1921 Place Persia, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/608

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/608
Title:
File 2976/1916 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Bunder Abbas Kerman Telegraph and Road'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of two parts: Part 1 and Part 2 both contain papers relating to the construction of a telegraph line and road from Bandar Abbas (or Bunder Abbas or Bander Abbas) [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] to Kerman in Persia [Iran]; Part 2 also includes some papers relating to the development of road...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1922
Extent:
1 volume (370 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/10/651

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/651
Title:
File 464/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: Bushire hinterland situation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the situation in the Bushire [Bushehr] hinterland, including Shiraz, in Southern Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to: The rebellion in Tangistan. Proposed improvements to Bushire roads. The deportation to Bushire of the Europeans and Indians arres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1916-28 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 volume (295 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/690

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/690
Title:
File 2834/1917 Pt 1 'PERSIA: SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES STATUS &c'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the South Persia Rifles, including its organisation, costs, control, role and status. The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Viceroy (Government of India), Foreign Department, Finance Department, and Army Department; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1917-4 Jan 1919
Extent:
1 volume (402 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/691

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/691
Title:
File 2834/1917 Pt 2 'SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to expenditure on the South Persia Rifles and its dissolution in 1921. The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Viceroy (Government of India), Foreign Department (later Foreign and Political Department), and Finance Departm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1919-11 Oct 1923
Extent:
1 volume (435 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/727

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/727
Title:
File 299/1918 Pt 1 'Persia: situations in Fars and Shiraz'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the military and political situation in Fars and Shiraz in 1918. Topics discussed in the volume include: Alleged plots against officers of South Persia Rifles The affairs of the South Persia Rifles The attitude of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1917-23 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (208 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C158
Title:
Memorandum by the Chief of Imperial General Staff and a Minute by Edmund George Barrow and John Evelyn Shuckburgh, on the Situation in Southern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns attacks made against the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles] by members of Persian tribes at Kazerun and Dashtistan [Dashtestan] (also spelled as 'Dasht-i-Arjun' and 'Dashtarjin' in the file), and the possibility of sending troops from Bushire. The file consists of a m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1916-27 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C161
Title:
Recent events in Persia.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report, written by Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Political Secretary, India Office, which provides the British perspective on recent events in Persia, from mid-1916 to early 1917. The report is divided into sections using headings, which cover the following locations: Tehran, Ispah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C162
Title:
Sir Percy Sykes's Position. Viceroy's Telegram of 28 February 1917. Note by Political Secretary, India Office.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note which concerns Sir Percy Sykes's position as commander of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. The note, written by the Secretary to the Political Department, India Office [Sir Arthur Hirtzel], is written in response to a telegram, dated 28 February 1917 a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C164
Title:
British Interests in Persia and the South Persia Military Police.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report which is dated 20 June 1916 and is attributed to Richard Alexander Steel, Military Attaché of the Indian Army. The report concerns British interests in Persia and the recent formation of the South Persia Military Police (abbreviated to SPMP in this file and later k...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (29 folios)