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IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36
- Record Id:
- 040-000799048
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799011
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00014a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035604836.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36
- Title:
- Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921
- Scope & Content:
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This previously secret file, compiled by the India Office, contains various papers relating to expenditure on the Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia between 1918 and 1921.
The file opens with a note about the contents of the file, and is followed by an India Office Political Department Memorandum and a memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Correspondence regarding expenditure is then included which dates from after the Chancellor's memorandum (November 1919) until January 1921.
There are two appendices. Appendix I contains correspondence on the subject which was exchanged prior to the Chancellor's memorandum. Appendix II provides copies of the main military and political telegrams which are referred to in the memoranda and the later correspondence regarding expenditure. At the end of the file is a copy of a separate telegram from the Viceroy, Army Department, to the Secretary of State for India dated August 1919 (folios 16-17).
The main correspondents throughout the file are the India Office, the Treasury, the War Office (including the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill), the Secretary of State for India (Edwin Samuel Montagu), and the Viceroy, Army Department.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799011
038-000799012
040-000799048 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/15 : Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1-40 : Iran
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36 : Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0015]/037-000799011[0001]/038-000799012[0036]/040-000799048
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 file (17 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00014a
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1921
- End Date:
- 1921
- Date Range:
- 1921
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 17; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Arrangement:
- The content of the main file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. The content of the appendices is also arranged in chronological order within each appendix.
- Administrative Context:
- The Malleson Mission was a small, British-led force which was sent from India to Transcaspia due to concerns over Bolshevik, German and Turkish activity near the British 'sphere of influence' in India and the Persian Gulf. The Mission was named after Sir Wilfrid Malleson, the general leading the operation.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)