IOR/L/PS/10/317

Correspondence, minutes, and other papers, relating to the appointment and retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed, Persia [Mashhad, Iran]. Correspondence is exchanged between representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, and the Army Department of the Viceroy (Government of India), and covers: the necessity of retaining a Military Attaché at Meshed; financial contributions from different government departments for the maintenance of the post; in 1913, the Foreign Office's desire to disassociate itself with maintenance of the post; in 1913, the Viceroy's proposal to appoint Captain Frank Graham Marsh of the 9th Ghurkha Rifles to the post of Military Attaché at Meshed; in 1918, Captain Marsh's replacement by Major Geoffrey Davis Pike, in the post of Military Agent in the Caucasus; proposals for the maintenance of additional personnel at Meshed, including wireless radio operators and transport personnel; in 1921, the War Office and Army Council's decision to withdraw financial support for the post; in 1922, the retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed on a reduced scale.

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.