‘Duzdap to Meshed Motor Road. (As Organised as a Line of Communication in 1919-20.)’
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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...
Summary of Papers Dealing with the Transfer of the Control of the Operations in Mesopotamia from the India Office to the War Office
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This file is a printed report entitled 'Summary of Papers Dealing with the Transfer of the Control of the Operations in Mesopotamia from the India Office to the War Office', printed by the Government of India Army Department (Simla: 1916). It consists of two sections: the first outlines the detai...
‘PLAN showing Principal Ports in Persian Gulf with Town & Trade Routes served by each’
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The map shows railways, political borders, towns, population sizes, and British and Russian spheres of influence. It is part of George Buchanan’s report on the conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] of 20 June 1917.
Imprint: Vandyked at the Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dun. S.D.O. 3934-2-25. Distinctive Features: Sketch map of battle of Wadi produced to illustrate the British campaign in Mesopotamia depicting the movements of British and Turkish military forces on the 12-13th January 1916 including po...
Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dun. S.D.O. 3937. 2-25. Distinctive Features: Sketch map showing the area east of Kut-Al-Amara [Al-Kūt] produced to illustrate the movements of British military forces on the 16th April 1916 with position of various infantry br...
A note on communications and irrigation in the Persian province of Arabistan
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This note on communications and irrigation in Arabistan was written by Sir George Cunningham Buchanan and was printed in Simla at the Government Monotype Press. The information in the note is divided using sub-headings which include: general description communications the Karun River irrigation ...
The map shows the region of Bakhtiari Garmsir [Bakhtīārī] in south-western Persia. It is found in the Military Report on S.-W. Persia, Vol. I. Bakhtiari Garmsir compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Routes identified in Volume I and other routes are marke...
The map shows the region of Bakhtiāri in south-western Persia. It is found in the Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume. II. Arabistan compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Routes identified in Volume II and other routes are marked in red. The map incl...
The map shows the region of Bakhtiāri in south-western Persia. It is found in the Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume IV. Kuhgalu Country compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Routes identified in Volume IV and other routes are marked in red. The map...
‘ACTION NEAR HERAT-I-KHURREH (11th May 1918) GUDAR-I-PIR ZAD’
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The scale of the map is 1inch = 1mile. The map was printed by the Simla Drawing Office and includes the printing statement ‘S. D. O. No. 2424, November 1918’.
