‘Plate III. Plate showing Pattern of Numerals as worn on Shoulder Straps of Regiments’
Scope & Content:
Illustrations of the Arabic numerals 1-9 and 0, with an additional illustration of a shoulder strap for the Naib Dowum of the 10th (Qahreman) Cavalry Regiment, indicating the placement of the regiment number.
‘Plate VI. Plate showing Badges of Rank of Police Officers.’
Scope & Content:
Showing the badges of rank for Persian police officers, with collars and cuffs for: Naib Dowum (cavalry), Naib Awwal (artillery), Sultan (engineers), Yamar (transport), Naib Sarhang (staff), and Sarhang (veterinary).
‘Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. I’
Scope & Content:
The key to the map indicates: roads actually in use with wheeled vehicles; roads fit for passage of wheeled artillery; camel tracks; railway lines; telegraph lines and telegraph offices; post offices; boundaries, both demarcated and undemarcated. Also indicated are rivers and waterways; settlemen...
Diagrammatic plan of Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] railway station yard, showing: railways lines; station building; engine sheds; and workshops. Distances are given in feet. The diagram is annotated with circled numbers (1-44), for which there is no explanatory key on the map or in the enclosing volume.
Diagrammatic map of the railway station yard at Duzdap [Zahedan], indicating: railway lines; station building; goods and passenger platforms; and sidings. Distances and dimensions are given in feet. The diagram is annotated with circled numbers (1-21), for which there is no explanatory key on th...
‘Mechanical Transport Chart. Passable normally to M.T. (i.e. up to 3 Ton Trucks in winter and 5 Ton Trucks in summer’
Scope & Content:
The map, which bears an additional title: ‘Condition of the Duzdap-Meshed Road February 1930’, indicates the road between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashad] and its suitability for motor transport (‘M.T.’) The key indicates the condition of the roads on the route: good; normally good, requiring...
‘Duzdap to Meshed Motor Road. (As Organised as a Line of Communication in 1919-20.)’
Scope & Content:
Map of roads between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashad]. The map and accompanying key indicate: posts were troops were stationed; halting stages for convoys; roads metalled in 1920; roads unmetalled in 1920 but since metalled (as of 1930); roads still unmetalled (as of February 1930); camel tra...
‘Map of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkistan) To Accompany Military Report, 1929.’
Scope & Content:
Map of the Sinkiang [Xinjiang] province of China. The map is split across two sheets, the first (labelled ‘No. 1’) being the western half of the area covered, and the second (labelled ‘No. 2’) the eastern half. Both sheets have an inset map, showing the complete area of the larger map. The scale...
Confidential military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Department of the Quarter Master General of India, by Captain George Samuel Frederick Napier, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Staff Captain. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Central Printing Office, 190...
‘Sketch Survey Karun River Muhammera to Ahwaz by Lieut. W. B. Huddleston, R.I.M. November 1899’
Scope & Content:
Sketch map showing the course of the river Karun from Muhammera [Khorramshahr] to Ahwaz [Ahvāz], based on a survey undertaken by Lieutenant Willoughby Baynes Huddleston of the Royal Indian Marine in November 1899. The map indicates: the nature and course of the river; soundings, measured in fath...
