Imprint: General Staff India. S.D.O. No. 1251, June, 1915. Distinctive Features: Title continues: ‘Submitted with General Mellis’s report’. Map of Shaiba and vicinity produced to illustrate the positions of British and Turkish military forces showing the location of various brigades and he...
Glossary of Persian military terms, with Appendix I, containing ranks of the Persian Army; Appendix II, containing musketry terms
Scope & Content:
This volume is a glossary of Persian military terms and was published in Lucknow by the Newul Kishore Press. The terms are listed in alphabetical order in English and the Persian translation appears next to each term. There are two appendices at the end of the volume: the first contains a list ...
Report on the operations carried out in the southern desert in connection with the Iraq-Najd borders, November 1927-May 1928.
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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 December 1928. The volume is divided into three sections: the report, appendices, and maps....
Sheet no. 2 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Sheet no. 3 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
Sheet no. 1 of a map of southwest Persia [Iran], compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, by Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell (Victoria Cross, Royal Engineers), Assistant Quartermaster General, January 1885. The map indicates: re...
‘Map of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkistan) To Accompany Military Report, 1929.’
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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...
'CORRECTIONS TO ROUTES IN PERSIA VOLUME II. (NORTH-WESTERN PERSIA.)'
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Corrections to Routes in Persia Volume II. (North-Western Persia.) (First Series, 1926) General Staff India (Simla, Government of India Press, 1926). The volume contains corrections to details of land routes.
