Search

Subject Arab Revolt (1916-1918)

11. IOR/L/PS/10/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/638
Title:
File 5235/1916 Pt 2 'Arabia: Shereef''s title.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns various titles proposed for the Grand Shereef of Mecca [Grand Sharif of Mecca, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], following his recognition by the British and allied governments as King of the Hedjaz [Hejaz]. The papers include: the declaration by certain other rulers in the region ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan - 25 Oct 1917
Extent:
1 volume (149 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/643

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/643
Title:
File 81/1917 'Arabia: Arab revolt. Arab Prisoners'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the recruitment of Arab prisoners of war held in India, formerly with the Ottoman Army, for service in the Arab Revolt under the Sherif [of Mecca] (later referred to as the King of Hejaz) [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, Emir and Sherif of Mecca, later King of Hejaz]. A request for...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1916-12 Feb 1919
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/645

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/645
Title:
File 110/1917 'Arabia: Printed Correspondence.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains miscellaneous printed correspondence received by the India Office from the Government of India, relating to Arabia and the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are the Secretary of State for India; the British High Commissioner, Egypt; the Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Nov 1916 - 1 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (299 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/658
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920
Extent:
1 volume (411 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/18/B222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
Title:
Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca
Scope & Content:
This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/18/B235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B235
Title:
‘The Arab Revolt. Views of an Indian Moslem [Muslim].’
Scope & Content:
A secret memorandum containing an extract of a letter, received by Edward Ernest Long, former editor of the Indian Daily Telegraph, and written by an unnamed Indian Muslim. A copy of another letter, written by Long, dated 7 July 1916, precedes the main letter, in which Long describes the views o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1916
Extent:

2 folios

17. IOR/L/PS/18/B309

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B309
Title:
Interview with Sherif Feisal
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, authored by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, dated 30 December 1918, concerns a meeting at the India Office, London, between Sir Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State, and Shaikh Feisal [Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī], accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence ac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/6/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/32
Title:
File XXV/3 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Arab Revolt in the Hejaz against the Turks, 1916
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and reports related to the British Government's response to the announcement of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916 (folios 2-14) and to political-military developments in the Hejaz between 1924 and 1926, notably the conquest of Jeddah and the fal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1916-17 Jun 1926
Extent:
1 file (243 folios)