'Field notes: Aden Protectorate'
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/7
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The record is made up of 28 folios. It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Published in 1917 by the General Staff, India, this report is intended as a guide for officers serving in the field.
Chapter headings are: history; geography; population; tribes; climate; Aden and Shaikh Othman; water supply; special notes for various branches; miscellaneous; personalities of note; gazetteer; communications.
Two maps of Aden are contained in the cover (folios 2 and 3) as well as a 'Tabulated statement of wells' (folios 15-17).
- Extent and format
- 28 folios
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Please note that ff 2-4 are housed inside f 1 (i.e. the inside front cover). Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- English in Latin script
- Type
- Archival file
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- Archive reference
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/7
- Former external reference(s)
- A 59 Case No. 15598 A 91
- Date(s)
- 1917 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Military intelligenceTopography
- Places
- Aden
- People & organisations
- Indian Army
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/7
- Title
- 'Field notes: Aden Protectorate'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:28r, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence