Abstract: The
Who's Who in Aden and Western Arabiacomprises a biographical dictionary of individuals connected with the fall of the Sultanate of Lahej [Laḩij] to Ottoman forces in July 1915.Most of the individuals are key members of the Subaihi tribe; a breakdown of the sections of the tribe is given on folio 60. In addition, the dictionary includes prominent individuals and leaders of other Arab tribes; key Turkish military personnel; and individuals being held as prisoners of war including British military personnel.The volume was published in Calcutta by the Superintendent Government Printing, India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 67; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: 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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-13; these numbers are printed, and are not circled.
Abstract: The volume consists of corrections and additions to the biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes given in
Who's Who in Persia (Volume II), compiled by the General Staff, India, from 1923.Published by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 14; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-12; these numbers are printed, and are not circled.
Abstract: The volume consists of corrections and additions to the biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes given in
Who's Who in Persia (Volume III) Arabistan, Luristan, Isfahan & Bakhtiari, compiled by the General Staff, India, from 1923.Published by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-6; these numbers are printed, and are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains three extracts from German papers, translated and commented on by Captain Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore in 1894, detailing the latest up-to-date information on the armed strength of Turkey at the time.The extract from the
International Revuefor November 1893, discusses press underestimation of Tukey's military system, covering the Artillery Reorganisation Programme of 1886-87, the subdivision of the empire into territorial zones, military reform, mobilisation arrangements, armament, cavalry, and regiment organisation.In contrast, two extracts from
Die Reichswehrdiscuss the incompleteness of the existing Turkish military preparations.
Die Reichswehrdated 11 February 1994 covers the distribution (dislocation) of troops, unsatisfactory armament, and lack of training for officers.
Die Reichswehrdated 21 March 1894 breaks down the dislocation of the Turkish army, and covers the lack of armaments, and of cavalry and artillery horses.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 8; 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.
Abstract: The interim amendments are comprised of a list of routes through Persia compiled by the mechanical transport (M T). For each route the start and end destinations are given along with following: the total distance; references to maps showing the route; general notes and a report which breaks down the route into smaller parts; details of the route's suitability in various weather conditions; surface, gradient, character of adjacent country; climate, local features, condition of the roads, and available facilities and supplies such as camping locations and water.The routes described in the amendments are:M T Route No. 8 Kangavar [Kangāvar] - Jokar [Jowkār] via Tuisarkan [Tūyserkān]M T Route No. 9 Kangavar [Kangāvar] to mile 272 on route IV C via Nehavend [Nahāvand]M T Route No. 11 Hamadan [Ostān-e Hamadān] - Senneh [Sanandaj]M T Route No. 11-A Qurveh [Qorveh] - Sunqur [Sonqor] and thence to join route 1-B near Sahneh [Şaḩneh]M T Route No. 14 Hamadan [Ostān-e Hamadān] to Zenjan [Zanjān] via Kabutarahang [Kabūdarāhang]M T Route No. 16 Rawan [Ravān] to Saveh [Sāveh] via Nubaran [Nowbarān]M T Route No. 17 Saveh [Sāveh] to Tehran [Tehrān]M T Route No. 17-A Saveh [Sāveh] to Qum [Qom] via Kardin [Kūh-e Kordīn] and Haveh Āveh]M T Route No. 17-B Saveh [Sāveh] to Qum [Qom] via Anjilavand [Anjīlāvand]M T Route No. 32 Ahwaz [Ahvaz] to Ganaweh [Gonāveh] via Behbehan [Behbahān]M T Route No. 33 Behbehan [Behbahān] to Kazerun [Kāzerūn]M T Route No. 34 Bushire [Būshehr] to Ganoweh [Gonāveh]M T Route No. 42 Khumain [Khomeyn] to Isfahan [Isfahan] via Gulpaigan [Golpāyegān]M T Route No. 45 Nain [Nā’īn] to Qum [Qom] via Ardistan [Ardestān]M T Route No. 51 Bushire [Būshehr] - Lingeh [Lengeh]M T Route No. 55 Lar - Lingeh [Lengeh]M T Route No. 61 Lingeh [Lengeh] - Bandar Abbas Bandar ‘Abbās]M T Route No. 92 Meshed [Mashhad] - Sarakhs [Sarakhs]M T Route No. 93 Dughai [Dowghā’ī]- Sultanabad [Solţānābād]M T Route No. 94 Imam Quli [Emām Qolī] (Mile 122 on Route VIII-C) to Lutfabad [Loţfābād]M T Route No. 95 Quchan [Qūchān] - Bandar Shah [Bandar-e Torkaman]M T Route No. 98 Shahrud [Shāhrūd] - Shahpasand [Shāh Pasand]M T Route No. 101 Tehran [Tehrān] to Semnan [Semnān] via Aiwani-i-Kaif [Eyvānekey] and Garmsar [Garmsār]M T Route No. 102 Route 101, Mile 28.2, to Tehran [Tehrān] via Jalilabad [Jalīlābād] and Veramin [Varāmīn]M T Route No. 103 Rudian [Rūdehen] to Amol [Āmol] via Ab Ali [Āb‘alī]M T Route No. 104 Babul [Bābol] to Mahmudabad [Maḩmūdābād] via Amul [Āmol]M T Route No. 105 Arablar [Arablyar] to Maku [Mākū]Routes 8, 11, 42 and 101 also include appendices detailing alternative options to the principal route described.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 48; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume consists of reports on minor military operations in 'South Persia' contained in a despatch from the Inspector General, South Persia Rifles (Percy Molesworth Sykes) to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla. The reports recount operations against Labu Muhammadis, Chehar Radis and other 'robber tribes' of 'Northern Fars' and against the 'Saulat-ud-Daulah', Il Khani of the Qashqais', and 'Nasr-I-Divan Kalantar of Kazarun'. Many of the reports included were by the Deputy Inspector General, South Persia Rifles (Colonel Ernest Frederick Orton).There follow individual reports from commanding officers detailing the units involved, topography of the land on which the military operations took place, the villages and tribes attacked, description of military operation, tables of operational logistics and casualties sustained on both sides.The volume contains 17 maps and plans of the towns and villages attacked in the operations, giving such information as relief, settlement, hydrology, lines of communication and progress of battle:'Plan of villages - CHAH-HAQ and MIAN DASHT, CHAHAR-RAHI PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. APRIL, 1918' (folio 4)'ACTION OF DEH SHAIKH. 25th May 1918.' (folio 15)'Fight at DEH SHAIKH Map (17. C. B. 2.4.6) 25th May 1918.' (folio 17)'ACTION OF DEH SHAIKH. 25th May 1918. Decisive attack from Gardaneh Sagavi Kutal, 3 p.m.' (folio 18)'PLAN OF NEIGHBOURHOOD SHIRAZ' (folio 23)'AFIFABAD POST As when occupied by detachment on 9-6-18.' (folio 24)'Action of BULVARDI, near SHIRAZ. June 27th 1918.' (folio 30)'Action at CHINARINAZ (10th May 1918)' (folio 39)'ACTION NEAR HERAT-I-KHURREH' (11th May 1918) GUDAR-I-PIRZAD.' (folio 41)'PLAN SHEWING HILLS SOUTH OF ZIARAT VILLAGE.' (folio 43)'ACTION OF ZIARAT, SARCHAHAN VALLEY; 13-5-1918. From Khunsar River (folio 44)'ACTION OF KUH-I-KHAN. Against Charrahis 16-5-1918. From hill 1200 feet above , and N. of valley; looking South.' (folio 47)'ACTION OF CHINAR RAHDAR. 7th July 1918. Situation at 5-30 a. m., 7th July 1918.' (folio 61)'SKETCH MAP OF ABADEH.' (folio 74)'Sketch Map to Illustrate OPERATIONS TOWARDS FIRUZABAD (July 1918.)' (folio 82)'PERSIA. INDIA AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES. SHEET NO. 17' (folio 84)'ACTION NEAR FIRUZABAD. [23rd-24th July 1918].' (folio 85)Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 87; 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.
Abstract: This volume contains geographical and strategic information on Arabia and was produced by the Naval Staff Intelligence Department, October 1941.It is divided into six sections: 'Policy', 'Strategy and Tactics', 'Economics' (folio 4) 'Geography and Topography' (folios 4v-10), 'Base Facilities and Maintenance of the Fleet' (folios 10v-11) and 'Ports, Anchorages and their Defences' including descriptions of several ports in the Region: Akaba, Bahrain, Doha, Hodeida and Ras Kethib, Jedda, Kamaran, Kuwait, Mukalla, and Muscat (folios 11v-25).There is a 'List of Plans' of the ports (folio 3), but none of the plans listed are enclosed to the volume.Physical description: Foliation: there is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 26. There is also an original pagination, from 1-45.
Abstract: The volume is titled
Report on the Working of the Line of Communication and on the Withdrawal of the British Military Mission in East Persia, General Staff India. The volume is marked confidential and was printed in Delhi by Superintendent Government Printing, India, in 1921.The report is from the General Officer Commanding, Baluchistan District to the Chief of the General Staff; the report contains preliminary remarks on 'The withdrawal of the troops of the British Military Mission at and beyond Meshed, and of the Lines of Communication'. There follows the substantive report from the Inspector-General of Communications, East Persia, Duzdap to the General Staff, Baluchistan District, Quetta. This report is divided into two parts:Part I - 'A brief report on the working and organization of the Line of Communications, East Persia, in April 1920'Part II - 'The withdrawal' which has the following sub-sections: general; supply and transport services (including some special points for consideration); medical; ordnance; works; posts and telegraphs; vetinary.The report is accompanied by nine maps:'APPENDIX 1. SKETCH MAP SHOWING POSITION OF POST AND COMBINED OFFICES IN EAST PERSIA' (folio 10)'APPENDIX 1. L. OF C.E.P. INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM' (folio 12)'APPENDIX 2. AREA ON THE EAST PERSIA L. OF C. COMMON TO RAIDING (folio 15)'APPENDIX 1. GRAPHIC MAP ILLUSTRATING THE NORMAL SOURCES FROM WHICH THE TROOPS IN EAST PERSIA WERE SUPPLIED AND THE CONTINUOUS MOVEMENTS BY WHICH THE SUPPLIES WERE NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED TO THE FORCE AT MESHED AND TO THE GARRISONS OF POSTS ON L. OF C.' (folio 18)'APPENDIX 1. LINES OF COMMUNICATION EAST PERSIA' (folio 33)'APPENDIX 3. DIAGRAM SHOWING POSITIONS OF TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH AND COMBINED OFFICES IN EAST PERSIA' (folio 35)'COLUMNS AND CONVOYS WOKRING IN CONNECTION WITH WITHDRAWAL FROM EAST PERSIA' (folio 55)'DAYS AFTER ZERO' (folio 62)'PLAN showing ORGANIZATION OF LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE AND DEFENCE TROOPS) (folio 77)Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 78; 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.
Abstract: A confidential report on Central Asia, compiled by Captain H H Dowding, Captain of the General Staff, War Office, 1905.Contained within the report are chapters on the history, geography, administration, communications, resources, ethnography, and military of the region. Also included is a preface by Major-General J M Grierson, General Staff, War Office (folio 3), appendices (folios 63-78), including detailed information on the railways of the region, and a colour map of Central Asia (folio 81).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 81; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The file has one foliation anomaly, f 34a.
Abstract: Military report on Arabistan [Khuzestan] province, compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed in 1924 (Simla: Government of India Press).The report is organised into nine chapters (with subsections), each covering a different subject, plus appendices, as follows:Chapter I - History (General; Ancient; Modern; Political Attitude).Chapter II - Geography (Boundaries; Area; General description; Altitude; Mountains; Rivers (Navigable); Other Rivers and Fords; Towns; Villages; Tracts of land; Islands; Fortified places; Political divisions).Chapter III - Climate (General; Temperature; Winds; Rainfall; Mirage; General Medical and Sanitary Conditions; Chief diseases; Conditions affecting Aviation; Conditions affecting Operations).Chapter IV - Economic Resources (General; Labour; Agriculture; Livestock; Manufactures; Power; Commerce; Customs; Banking; Revenue; Tables A, B and C).Chapter V - Ethnography (General; Population; Races; Religions; Languages).Chapter VI - Tribes (General; Armed Forces; Tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance; Political Attitude; Military Considerations; Tribal Action; Punitive Measures; Recapitulation; Tribal Lists (separate index in alphabetical order)).Chapter VII - Personalities (General; Personalities (in alphabetical order); Index to Personalities (in alphabetical order)).Chapter VIII - Communications (General; Communication with the sea; Inland Water; Methods of travelling; Railways; Telegraphs and Telephones; Postal; Aerodromes; Possible aerodromes; Wireless Communication; Visual Communication; Principal Routes).Chapter IX - Administration (General; Government Establishments; Northern Province; Southern Province).Appendices: A. Bibliographical Notes; B. Weights and Measures, Coinage and Time; C. Glossary of Topographical Terms; D. Karun River Regulations; E. Concession granted to the 'Nasiri Company'; F. Customs Schedule; G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company [APOC].Physical description: Foliation: the sequence is circled in pencil in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 180.Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);VII – personalities;VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);appendix A – bibliographical notes;B – weights and measures, coinage and time;C – glossary of topographical terms;D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;F – customs schedule;G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 181; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.