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IOR/L/PS/10/579/1

Record Id:
041-000545613
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
036-000544688
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000287.0x0000b6
LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100076863274.0x000002
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/579/1
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. Sir P SYKES' mission. Kawam.'
Scope & Content:

The part comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the military operations in Persia and the Sir Percy Sykes mission.

Topics discussed in the correspondence include:

  • The proposed increase of the Cossack Brigade and the question of the formation of an irregular force in south Persia under British officers
  • The approval by the Government of India and Foreign Office of this course of action
  • Correspondence discusses that Mr Marling was under the impression that the India Office was contemplating sending a considerable force to Persia in about six months (from February 1916)
  • The deportation of Sir Percy Sykes
  • The cost of military police
  • The movements of Sir Percy Sykes and his mission after he left Karachi
  • Instructions to the Persian Prime Minister, Kawam es-Sultaneh
  • The dispatch of troops to Bundar Abbas for the support of the Kawam government
  • The acceptance by the Treasury of the principle of equal division of cost.
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
041-000545613
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.'

 

IOR/L/PS/10/579/1 : File 160/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. Sir P SYKES' mission. Kawam.'
Hierarchy:
032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0581]/040-000545612[0001]/041-000545613
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 part volume (200 folios)
Digitised Content:
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100076863274.0x000002
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Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1916
End Date:
1916
Date Range:
1916
Era:
CE
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Former External References:
P 160/1916 Pt 1
Arrangement:
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Public Record(s)