File 160/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. Sir P SYKES' mission. Kawam.' [415r] (250/404)
The record is made up of 1 part volume (200 folios). It was created in 1916. 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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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 The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. 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.
- Extent and format
- 1 part volume (200 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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- Title
- File 160/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. Sir P SYKES' mission. Kawam.'
- Pages
- 291r:367v, 368ar, 368r:424v, 425ar, 425r:434v, 437r:491v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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