Collection 248/13 'Quarterly Returns showing strength of Consular Guards and Escorts in Persia.'
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This file contains copies of quarterly strength returns dated 30 September 1910 to 1 January 1929, sent by the Government of India, Army Department and (from July 1925) Army Headquarters, India to the India Office. The strength returns list personnel of the British Indian Army serving as Consul...
‘Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. I’
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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...
The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia Volume III, Part I. General Staff India 1916 (Reprint April 1918) (Simla: Printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1918). The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprise...
'Memorandum of information received during the month of August 1909, relating to affairs in Persia, and on the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf'
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The file consists of a memorandum written by Leonard William Reynolds, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, at Simla, 1 September 1909. Based upon a series of reports it covers: the situation in Persia - Azerbaijan, Shiraz, and Kerman; the Zil-es-Sultan; telegraph lines in Persia; the R...
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. The...
One photographic print: a full-length portrait of Sartip (a Persian military rank equivalent to Brigadier General) Muhammed Hossein Khán. The title is printed above the photograph in Persian, and below the photograph in English. The Persian title also bears a date: Hijri year 1301 (c.1883).
'CORRECTIONS TO THE GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOLUME III'
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The volume consists of corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia Volume III (1st Series, 1918). It provides an index to the sub-tribes referred to in the volume. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1918.
‘Index Map to the Military Reports and Route Maps of Persia.’
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Map of Persia, with coastlines, rivers and boundaries marked. Annotations and boundaries printed in black indicate the areas covered by each volume of the Military Report (volumes I-IV). Lines and annotations in red indicate geographic regions (for example, Kerman, Seistan [Sīstān]). The map was...
The map is found in the Report of the Operations connected with the Occupation of Penjwin between April 18th and May 7th, 1927, promulgated by Command of the Air Council. It shows Diyālah [Ustān Diyālá], Kirkuk, and Sulaimāni [As Sulaymānīyah] divisions in Iraq; and Ardalān (Kurdistān) and Kirmā...
