Report by H. E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the Minor Military Operations undertaken from 1917 to 1921 in North and North East Persia
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The file consists of a report by Henry Seymour Rawlinson, Commander-in-Chief in India, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Army Department on minor operations in North and North East Persia from 1917-21. It includes the East Persian Cordon and Meshed [Mashhad] Military Mission, with th...
Report on the operations carried out in the southern desert in connection with the Iraq-Najd borders, June 1928-May 1929.
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A printed report on air and motorcar operations carried out along the Iraq-Najd border following several cross-border raids. The report was produced and issued by the Air Ministry and printed in London in July 1930. The volume is divided into three sections: the report; appendices; and maps. Th...
HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918.
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An official government publication in four volumes compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volumes were printed and published at His Majesty's Sta...
Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volu...
‘RAILWAY MAP OF BASRA AND MAGIL SHOWING TENTATIVE PROPOSALS FOR PORT DEVELOPMENT’
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The map sheet is one of two maps annexed to a report included in IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3303. The other map sheet can be found at IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3303, f 380. The map shows the Basra and Magil [Al Ma‘qil] areas in Mesopotamia. It indicates: Hydrology Settlements and place names Buildings, including name...
SKELETON MAP OF BAKHTIĀRI COUNTRY Showing routes and chief rivers
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The skeleton map shows Bakhtiāri Country in south-western Persia depicting routes and chief rivers in the region. It is found in the Military Report on S. W. Persia, Vol. III. Bakhtiāri Country North of Kārūn River compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Ro...
‘Plan of villages CHAH-HAQ and MIAN DASHT CHAHAR-RAHI PUNITIVE EXPEDITION APRIL, 1918’
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The map shows a plan prepared for the General Staff India, of the villages Chah-Haq and Mian Dasht which were the target of a ‘punitive attack’ by British military forces in April 1918. The map also gives the location of features such as old garden walls, ruins, graves tower, and the distances t...
‘Plan 6. Panorama from Fort Snipe to illustrate first phase of the operations against Amara’
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Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1921. Distinctive Features: View from Fort Snipe at the Tigris River bend near Qurna drawn from plan prepared by G.S. India; landmarks labelled for reference with position and number of Turkish forces reported.
The plan accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. and shows a station yard at Duzdap [Zahedan] in eastern Persia, indicating railway lines, sidings and buildings. The plan has been corrected up to 31 March 1920, and bears a printing statement which reads 'Simla Drawing Office. No. ...
