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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Military intelligence Place Mesopotamia, Asia Minor

1. IOR/L/PS/10/839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/839
Title:
File 3467/1919 'MESOPOTAMIA POLICE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains weekly police reports from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Baghdad, covering events in Iraq [sometimes referred to in the volume as Mesopotamia] under British occupation in 1919-20, including during the Iraqi Revolt. The reports contain intelligence about the movements ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1919-4 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (639 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B358

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B358
Title:
"Situation in Middle East" (Note by Major Bray, Political Intelligence Officer, attached to India Office)
Scope & Content:
Intelligence report by Major Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, Political Intelligence Officer attached to the India Office, on Soviet activities and influence in the Middle East and the implications for British interests in the region. The document was prepared as a departmental minute. It discusses s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 file (15 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/84

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/84
Title:
Where's Where in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume serves as an index of places featured on Survey of India degree sheets 2C, 2D, 2G, 2H, 2K, 1L, 2O, 2P, 3A, 3E, 3I, 3J, 3M, 3N, 10A, 10B, and 10C. The places are arranged alphabetically and give the degree sheet reference. The preface details the method to be used to identify any give...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (65 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/C134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C134
Title:
'LINES OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TURKEY AND PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled LINES OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TURKEY AND PERSIA, and is a description of the British lines of communication between the Ottoman Empire and Persia [Iran]. It was produced in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and was printed by the Government Monotype Pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (62 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1
Title:
''A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL''
Scope & Content:
This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Aug 1916
Extent:

1 volume (367 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C190
Title:
Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters: I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1919
Extent:

1 volume (76 folios)