The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies Routes in Persia. (Volume II.) (North-Western Persia.). The map shows a region of northern and western Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks and paths. Numbers and...
The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies Routes in Persia. Volume III, Part 2. The map shows a region of western Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, tracks, railway and telegraph lines, and hydrology. Numbers and let...
The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies Routes in Persia. Volume IV, Part I. The map shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks, paths and hydrology. Numbers and letters...
Collection 425/1279 ‘European War 1914-: Removal of Lieut. Gen. Sir P. Lake from command of forces in Mesopotamia and appt. of Maj.-Gen. (temp Lt. Genl.) F.S. Maude C.B. C.M.G. D.S.O.’
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This file contains correspondence, dated 10 August 1916-29 September 1916, concerning arrangements for the replacement of Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake by Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude as Commander of British forces in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The file also contains a copy of a Parli...
Corrections and Additions to Who's Who in Persia, Vol. I
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The volume consists of corrections and additions to the biographical dictionary of individuals given in Who's Who in Persia (Volume I) Khorasan, Sistan & the Kainat, compiled by the General Staff, India, from 1923. Published by the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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...
