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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name War Office, 1857-1964

81. IOR/L/PS/12/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/768
Title:
Ext 6064/42 Pro-Axis plot in Persia; discovery of Mayer documents, etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, telegrams, and reports from the Government of India External Department; the Commander in Chief in the Middle East; the War Office; the Foreign Office; the British Embassy in Tehran; and the Minister of State in Cairo, regarding a German-Persian plot for a coup ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1942-21 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

82. IOR/L/PS/12/806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/806
Title:
Ext 1463/43 'Chinese mission to the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Military Attaché in China and the Commander-in-Chiefs in India and the Middle East as of March 1943. The mission starts from Chungking via Calcutta to Cairo. The mission was comprised of Major-General Hoo Hsien Chung, Major-General Lam Wai Ching, Col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1943-15 Mar 1943
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

83. IOR/L/PS/12/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1222
Title:
Ext 2919/47 'Request for General Staff maps of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, etc)'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a request made by the Iraq Petroleum Company to the Commonwealth Relations Office for three maps of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. The Iraq Petroleum Company asks that the maps be sheets of the 1:500,000 series of maps issued by the General S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1947-5 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

84. IOR/L/PS/12/1456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1456
Title:
Coll 1/20 'Aden Staff and Establishment: Personal Assistant to the Chief Commissioner'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner), the Colonial Office, the War Office, the Foreign and Political Department for the Government of India, and the Treasury, regarding the appointment of military officers as Personal Assistant or Aide-de-Camp to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1932-24 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

85. IOR/L/PS/12/1985

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1985
Title:
Coll 5/33(2) ‘AIR ROUTE TO INDIA: MUSCAT CIVIL AIR AGREEMENT (NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEW AGREEMENT)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes related to negotiations between the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, for a new Civil Air Agreement; Britain's aviation rights in Oman during the Second World War (1939-1945) had depended on a War Subsid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1945-2 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

86. IOR/L/PS/12/2069

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2069
Title:
Coll 6/7(2) 'The Yemen: Relations between H.M.G. and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and Imam Yehia bin Muhammad Hamid Uddin [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn, Imam of Yemen]. It documents (from a British perspective) the progress of treaty negotiations between Britain and Yemen. Much of the correspondence discusses the te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1932-21 Sep 1933
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

87. IOR/L/PS/12/2088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2088
Title:
Coll 6/21(2) 'Saudi Arabia: Relations with H.M.G.: Saudi Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah. Prolongation of Treaty of Jedda.'
Scope & Content:
This file, like the previous volume (IOR/L/PS/12/2087), concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, mainly between His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, Sir Reader William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-12 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (379 folios)

88. IOR/L/PS/12/2115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2115
Title:
Coll 6/48 'Oil: Concessions in Saudi Arabia. (Hasa)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, particularly the Hasa [Al Hasa] concession between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal). It includes discussion of the following: Oil negotiations in Saudi Arabia during March and April 1933, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1923-11 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (574 folios)

89. IOR/L/PS/12/2133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2133
Title:
Coll 6/66 'Saudi-Arabia: Saudi-Transjordan Frontier'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns British policy on the question of the Saudi-Transjordan frontier, specifically the frontier between Transjordan and Nejd, as initially outlined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925. The correspondence includes discussion of the following: The reported disaffection of cer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1934-6 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

90. IOR/L/PS/12/2135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2135
Title:
Coll 6/67(2) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It documents preparations for negotiations with the Saudi Government, and includes interdepartmental discussion regarding the approach that the British Government should take in reaching a settlement wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1934-1 May 1935
Extent:
1 volume (363 folios)