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21. IOR/L/PS/10/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/592
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on miscellaneous topics relating to Persia, April to June 1916. The discussion in the volume includes the following topics: Decoration for the Persian Foreign Minister and Farman Farma for his military support of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/10/650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/650
Title:
File 464/1917 Pts 1 & 3 'Persia Bushire Hinterland'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to military operations in the hinterland of Bushire [Bushehr] in Persia [Iran]. The volume consists of two parts: Part 1 [IOR/L/PS/10/650/1], and Part 3 [IOR/L/PS/10/650/2]. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1916-24 Oct 1917
Extent:

1 volume (192 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/10/651

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/651
Title:
File 464/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: Bushire hinterland situation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the situation in the Bushire [Bushehr] hinterland, including Shiraz, in Southern Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to: The rebellion in Tangistan. Proposed improvements to Bushire roads. The deportation to Bushire of the Europeans and Indians arres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1916-28 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 volume (295 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/10/748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/748
Title:
File 2835/1918 'Persia: East Persia (Seistan and Khorasan) Levy Corps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers regarding the Sistan Levy Corps [also written as Seistan Levy Corps in the file] and the Khorasan Levy Corps, British military units in East Persia [Iran] formed from local recruits during the First World War. Topics discussed include: issues ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1918-30 Nov 1925
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/10/874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/874
Title:
File 7512/1919 ‘MESOPOTAMIA – LEVIES’
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of papers relating to the Arab and Kurdish Levies in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers include correspondence from the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia at Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this volume), Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, to the India Office, mostl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1919-14 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 volume (181 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/12/309

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/309
Title:
PZ 6162/39 'Policy to be adopted during war time in regard to the employment of regular and irregular forces on the Frontier'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two copies of a policy to be adopted during war time in regard to the employment of regular and irregular forces on the North West Frontier Province in response to any hostile action directed at the British in tribal areas under their influence. The policy was proposed by the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1939-7 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/12/2888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2888
Title:
Coll 17/26 'Iraq. Army.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Iraqi armed forces, mostly concerning the introduction of conscription in Iraq under a system of National Service. The file also includes papers regarding the military policy of the Government of Iraq, and the concern of the chief of the Iraqi General Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1933-21 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/12/2902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2902
Title:
Coll 17/40 'Iraq. Basra Consulate-General Monthly Summaries'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of copies of monthly summaries from the British Consulate-General at Basra, for March, April, and May 1947, which were sent to the India Office by the Foreign Office. The summaries cover the following: the political and tribal situation in Basra; labour; the press; personalit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1947-28 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/18/B99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B99
Title:
'NEJD EXPEDITION PRECIS.'
Scope & Content:
Précis of the 1871-1872 Turkish Expedition to Nejd [Najd], compiled by Philip Durham Henderson, Under Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, March 1872. The précis has been divided into sections which discuss: Origin of the Expedition; First report of an intended expedition; D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1872
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/18/B181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B181
Title:
British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf. Memorandum on Lieutenant-Colonel Cox's telegram reports in Government of India's telegram of 1 December 1910.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum concerns British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf and was written by Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in December 1910. The immediate question it addresses is 'the desirability of concluding a treaty with a Sheikh or Sheikhs of the El Katr [Qatar] peninsula as a bulwark against T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1910
Extent:
5 folios