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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Persian Gulf, Asia

391. IOR/L/PS/20/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/64
Title:
PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES. 1903.
Scope & Content:
The file contains a printed report published by the 'Admiralty, Intelligence Department (No. 694). September 1903.', providing a compilation of available information of naval, military and political value about various locations in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Places described include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1903
Extent:

1 volume (55 folios)

392. IOR/L/PS/20/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/66
Title:
'Diary of a Tour in the Persian Gulf and in Turkish Arabia December 1906, by Lieutenant-Colonel Malleson Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of the Staff.'
Scope & Content:
The diary, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, comprises daily entries and accounts of his travels from 3 to 29 December 1906. The diary commences on his arrival at sea off Maskat [Muscat] before recounting the journey to Basra via Bushire and Koweit [Kuwait] and on to Baghdad, Bab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907
Extent:

1 volume (23 folios)

393. IOR/L/PS/20/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/130
Title:
Report and Proceedings of the Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The report was printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, November 1911, and approved on 14 December 1911. It concerns the situation in the Persian Gulf regarding the extent to which Turkish claims aligned with British interests, and engagements already made with the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Nov 1911
Extent:

1 volume (43 folios)

394. IOR/L/PS/20/249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/249
Title:
A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of copies of a series of agreements, engagements, and conventions concerning Britain and a number of related parties regarding the construction and/or extension of telegraph lines in Turkey, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran [Makran Coast] between 1853 and 1916. Related...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)

395. IOR/L/PS/20/263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/263
Title:
Report and Proceedings of a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Baghdad Railway, Southern Persia, and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the following minutes and proceedings: First Meeting, 2 March 1908. Evidence of Sir Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie. Second Meeting, 6 March 1908. Evidence of Sir J Mackay. Third Meeting, 11 March 1908. Evidence of Mr Frank Clark Strick and Mr E Lloyd. Fourth Meeting, 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1909
Extent:

1 volume (162 folios)

396. IOR/L/PS/20/289/A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/289/A
Title:
‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’
Scope & Content:
Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

397. IOR/L/PS/20/289/B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/289/B
Title:
‘Foreign Department Notes. Arms Traffic in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to the arms traffic in the Persian Gulf: a letter from Leonard William Reynolds of the Government of India, dated 29 June 1909 (ff 2-3) a confidential letter from the British Minister to Belgium, Arthur Henry Hardinge, to the Secretary of S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

398. IOR/L/PS/20/C74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C74
Title:
PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.
Scope & Content:
Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Report, 1898. There a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
56 folios

399. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood. Part 1A contains an 'Introd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

2 volumes (1624 pages)

400. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)