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4921. IOR/L/PS/12/2892, f 533

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2892, f 533
Title:
Koweit Harbour
Scope & Content:
The map shows Koweit [Kuwait] Harbour. The map includes brief descriptions of topography and vegetation. Soundings (depths) in feet are indicated by the numbers shown, and the map also includes depth contour lines. The map is labelled as being drawn from a survey by Captain A C Burgess, and it...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1905
Extent:
1 map

4922. IOR/L/PS/12/2893

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2893
Title:
Coll 17/30(2) 'Proposed additional outlet to the sea in or near Kuwait territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mainly relating to the port at Um Qasr (Umm Qasr). These papers mostly concern a notification of the schedule of dues and charges to be imposed by the Government of Iraq on vessels navigating to Um Qasr port (printed in the Iraq Government Gazette No. 24 of 14 June 1942)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1942-21 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (141 folios)

4923. IOR/L/PS/12/2894

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2894
Title:
Coll 17/31 'Iraq. Posts under Iraqi Govt. filled by British subjects.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to job vacancies under the Government of Iraq being filled by British subjects. It includes papers concerning the following vacancies: Adviser to the Ministry of Economics and Communications. Chief Engineer to the Irrigation Department. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1937-19 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)

4924. IOR/L/PS/12/2895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2895
Title:
Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed visit of an Iraqi irrigation engineer to India, to see some of the major irrigation works which had been constructed there, and the areas which had been brought under cultivation and colonised through the irrigation works. The papers mostly con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Dec 1938-20 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

4925. IOR/L/PS/12/2896

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2896
Title:
Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to a tour by Sir Basil Newton, HM Ambassador to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, visiting Sharja [Sharjah], Muscat, Bahrain, Basra, Fao [Al-Faw], and Abadan. The file mostly consists of the following: Correspondence between the India Office (Rol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1940-28 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

4926. IOR/L/PS/12/2897

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2897
Title:
Coll 17/35 ‘Iraq. Iraq – Saudi Relations. Demarcation of Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mainly relating to the proposed demarcation of the frontier between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, including the issue of the western termination point of the Saudi-Iraq frontier, at the meeting-point of Saudi, Iraqi and Transjordan territory. The papers largely consist of cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1937-5 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

4927. IOR/L/PS/12/2897, f 29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2897, f 29
Title:
‘Al Jauf’
Scope & Content:
The map, compiled in 1918, shows four different frontier lines between Transjordan [Jordan] and Nejd [Najd], in the Al Jauf [Al Jawf or Al-Jouf] region of what is now Saudi Arabia, with a key explaining what each frontier line is based on. The map indicates features including hydrology, tracks...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 map

4928. IOR/L/PS/12/2898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2898
Title:
Coll 17/36 ‘Iraq. On of Estabt. of Diplomatic relations between Iraq + U.S.S.R.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Iraq. The papers mainly consist of copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and the following: Sir Basil Newton and Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, HM Ambassador to Iraq (s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1941-19 Dec 1941
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

4929. IOR/L/PS/12/2899

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2899
Title:
Coll 17/37 ‘Iraq. Operations in – 1941. Political control and use of services of Mr Bertram Thomas.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to British operations in Iraq in 1941. It includes papers concerning the need for suitable political and administrative officers to serve under the British Embassy in Baghdad, and the question of the employment of Bertram Thomas for political or intellige...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1941-5 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

4930. IOR/L/PS/12/2900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2900
Title:
Coll 17/38 'Iraq. British Consulates in Basra.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a carbon copy of one letter from the Foreign Office to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 26 January 1942 (sent by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for India), informing the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the status ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1942-2 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

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