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461. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

462. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

463. IOR/L/PS/10/557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/557
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 3-4 ‘IRAQ & PERSIA. OIL’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject ‘IRAQ & PERSIA. OIL’. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/557/1) concerns a dispute between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Government of Persia [Iran] over royalty payments and compensation for damage done to oil pipelines. Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/5...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1924
Extent:

1 volume (334 folios)

464. IOR/L/PS/10/577

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/577
Title:
File 4612/1915 Pt 1-4 'GERMAN WAR - PERSIA FARMAN FARMA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to British policy towards Persia within the context of maintaining British interests there in the light of the war with Germany. In particular the correspondence details the British financial relationship ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 17 1915-29 Oct 1925
Extent:
1 volume (466 folios)

465. IOR/L/PS/10/579

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/579
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to military operations in Persia in 1916 and Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes' mission to create a military force. Topics discussed in the correspondence include: The proposed increase of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (491 folios)

466. IOR/L/PS/10/580

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/580
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Persia; Sir P Sykes' mission. Officers for South Persia Military Police; South Persia Rifles'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the transfer of various individuals from military units in India to positions in the South Persia Rifles, and associated issues of grading and pay. The discussions concern the conditions for medical off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1920
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

467. IOR/L/PS/10/582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/582
Title:
File 334/1916 Pt 1 ‘German War – Persia. Shiraz Prisoners – Major O’Connor’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the arrest at Shiraz by the Persian gendarmerie on 10 November 1915 of HM Consul at Shiraz (Major William Frederick Travers O’Connor), the Manager and other employees of the Imperial Bank of Persia at Shiraz, the Superintendent of the Shiraz section and other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Nov 1915-4 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (260 folios)

468. IOR/L/PS/10/583

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/583
Title:
File 334/1916 Pt 2 ‘Persia:- Outrages against British subjects. Shiraz Prisoners. (Col. O’Connor & others) Claim for compensation [etc.]’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to a claim for compensation from the Persian [Iranian] Government being made by the British Government, on behalf of mostly British subjects who were arrested by the Persian gendarmerie at Shiraz on 10 November 1915, with most of the men being held prisoner by T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1916-30 May 1927
Extent:

1 volume (268 folios)

469. IOR/L/PS/10/584

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/584
Title:
File 475/1916 'PERSIA: POLICY - 1916. The proposed Treaty of Alliance'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, notes and printed papers in 1916 relating to the development of British policy towards Persia as well as the British relationship with Russia vis-à-vis its position and interests in Persia. The discussion in the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)

470. IOR/L/PS/10/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/590
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: SITUATION (JAN-APL 1916). Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the situation in Persia from January to April 1916. Topics discussed include: Finances of Bushire administration Germans at Kerman Insecure position of Farman Farma as Prime Minister. German movements a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)