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IOR/L/PS/10/579
- Record Id:
- 040-000545612
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0001da
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076739620.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/579
- Title:
- File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.'
- Scope & Content:
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to military operations in Persia in 1916 and Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes' mission to create a military force.
Topics discussed in the correspondence include:
- The proposed increase of the Cossack Brigade and the question of a formation of an irregular force in south Persia under British officers
- The amount of associated costs and responsibility for payment
- The movements of Sir Percy Sykes and his mission after he left Karachi.
The principal correspondents include: the Viceroy, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under Secretary of State, India Office; HM Minister, Tehran, Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes.
The volume 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.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545612 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/579 : File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.' - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/10/579/1 : File 160/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. Sir P SYKES' mission. Kawam.'
IOR/L/PS/10/579/2 : File 160/1916 Pt 2 'Persia; MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916; Sir P. Sykes' mission'
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/579 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0581]/040-000545612
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (491 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0001da
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1916
- End Date:
- 1916
- Date Range:
- 1916
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 493; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio
- Former External References:
- P 160/1916 Pt 1
P 160/1916 Pt 2 - Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The Subject 160 (Sir P Sykes Mission) consists of two volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/579-580, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, and part 3 comprising the second volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)