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Also known as '''Posts and Telegraphs Department'''.
[[Image:Tea district post and telegraph office.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Tea District Post and Telegraph Department photographed by Samuel Cleland Davidson]]
== FIBIS resources ==
*FIBIS database: [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1322&s_id=213 Post Office of India during the Great War - 1914-1920]. Appendix sections listing names of Europeans, Indian and Anglo-Indian Personnel who worked for the Indian Post Office during WW1.
==Entry==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924101205643#page/n177/mode/2up  Entrance requirements c 1871 Telegraph Department  India] were [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924101205643#page/n507/mode/2up withdrawn], page 169 and page 496  ''Index Scholasticus: Sons and daughters. A guide to parents in the choice of educational institutions, preparatory to professional or other occupation of their children'' by R. Kemp Philp 1872 Archive.org
==Related Articles==
*[[Postal Service]]
*[[:Category:Post and Telegraphs images]]
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_India Communications in India] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_India Communications in India] Wikipedia
*[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/dnRqhS9tSxkvxMEJx3xh7H/The-telegram-is-dying.html The telegram is dying] by Shruti Chakraborty and Sidin Vadukut  27 September 2008. livemint.com Includes history and details about William Brooke O’Shaughnessy
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/03/telephone-map-of-india-1934-.html "Telephone Map of India 1934"] British Library Untold lives blog 21 March 2019.
===Historical books online===
*[http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2013/2777 ''An outline of postal history and practice with a history of post office of India''] by Ivie George Joseph Hamilton 1910. Download from Heidelberg University Digital Repository South Asian Studies. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.04961/page/1/mode/2up Archive.org], mirror from Ministry of Culture/National Library of India, but note some pages near the front of the book, together with pages 129-174  are '''missing''' in the latter version.
*[http://archive.org/stream/postofficeofindi00claruoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post Office of India and its Story]'' by Geoffrey Clarke, Indian Civil Service 1921 Archive.org. “With sixteen illustrations”
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109885/page/n5  '' Indian Postal Guide'' [October 1907<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://archive.org/stream/postofficemanual025168mbp#page/n1/mode/2up ''Post Office Manual Volume V: Appendices containing Special Supplementary Rules and Regulations''].  Published under the authority of the Director-General of the Post Office of India Third edition 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/unicodeuniversa00unkngoog/page/n11 ''"Unicode": The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-book. A Code of Cypher Words for Commercial, Domestic and Familiar Phrases in ordinary use in inland and foreign telegrams, with a list of prominent commercial firms who are Unicode users'']  6th edition 1889 Archive.org
:Probable [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548621/page/n1 1903 edition], (although not cataloged as such) Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Generally poor quality print.
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031/view?partId=nla.obj-412339007#page/n12/mode/1up telegraph code] to be used, (from page 12) as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.199750/mode/2up ''Word Code For Foreign State Telegrams, compiled for the Government of India. Part II-Code Phrase''] by J H Lane Indian Government Telegraph Department. 4th Edition prepared under the direction of J J Allen. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115584/page/n3/mode/2up Another file, easier to read in parts] but some pages towards the back are scanned/printed upside down. Archive.org. Elsewhere 4th edition was published 1903 (3rd edition 1890 in two volumes Part 1 Phrase, Code]
:Article [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~CS4HS/talks/codebooks.pdf "Compression, Correction, Confidentiality, and Comprehension: A Look at Telegraph Codes"] by Steven M. Bellovin "Preliminary version – March 25, 2009". cs.columbia.edu
:Article [https://www.jmcvey.net/cable/government/index.htm government and colonial administration codes] jmcvey.net


===Indo-European Telegraph===
===Indo-European Telegraph===
[[Image:Telegraph Office, Calcutta.jpg‎|right|thumb|350px|Telegraph Office , Calcutta]]
====Indo-European Telegraph Department====
====Indo-European Telegraph Department====
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran] Encyclopaedia Iranica. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
*[https://iranicaonline.org/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department   Indo-European Telegraph Department] Encyclopaedia Iranica. Construction commenced 1863. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
** "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society'' No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Cf2W-vME38AJ:www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf+British+Raj+Telegraph+Baghdad&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShGH8XAHtbY8D0csv7zFY5xPGhGTwFY9zHWU_E2naeRgl8WfV2OKVL8ea4XonbuVzCiGvUz6yvZdrUM_yuw1TZLaoGycOJlai7bnhKy0K9K_oX84t-rF1tw8VjcrX0qGD6xbxQ1&sig=AHIEtbQp2F9jb0L6nPbTQs2Tlyi46CFweA html version], [http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf original pdf]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell"] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society'' No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. now an archived webpage.
*An India List post indicates  the IETD was sold to Cable and Wireless in 1931. Also includes some names of employees c 1930.<ref>Fuller, Tony.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20210118234728/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=786045 Photograph with a lot of names - IETD Station at Bushire, 1930] ''Rootsweb India List'' 5 August 2012, now archived</ref>
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1859SuezKarachi/index.htm 1859 Suez - Aden - Karachi Cable] atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1859SuezKarachi/index.htm 1859 Suez - Aden - Karachi Cable] atlantic-cable.com
**HMS Retribution  assisted in laying the first submarine telegraph cable to India, in the section between Karachi and Aden in 1859.[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026424196#page/n177/mode/2up ''Memories of the Sea'', page 155] by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive.org
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/India/index.htm Indian Cables] by Bill Glover  atlantic-cable.com includes
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/India/index.htm Indian Cables] by Bill Glover  atlantic-cable.com includes
**Persian Gulf cables of 1864  
**Persian Gulf cables of 1864  
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*[http://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1864KarachiBushire/index.htm 1864 Karachi - Bushire Cable] atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1864KarachiBushire/index.htm 1864 Karachi - Bushire Cable] atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/TelegraphIsland/index.htm Telegraph Island The Indo-European Telegraph 1863-65] atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/TelegraphIsland/index.htm Telegraph Island The Indo-European Telegraph 1863-65] atlantic-cable.com
*[http://myphilately.com/fil_view.php?file_id=61062&t=science&tfr= First Day cover: Indo-European Telegraph Line- centenary9 November 1967. It is not clear what event occurred 9 November 1867.
**[http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29761017 The hardship posting to end all hardship postings] by Matthew Teller 24 October 2014. The telegraph station on Jazirat Al-Maqlab (Maqlab Island), now known as Telegraph Island.  bbc.com/news
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]] [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlpwd&cid=1-7#1-7 Indo-European Telegraph Department  '''IOR/L/PWD/7''']  1865-1931
*[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266157 ''The formation of the Indo-European telegraph line : Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Persia 1855-1865''] by Suliman Shahvar 1997 Thesis (Ph.D.) School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
:[https://www.irannamag.com/en/article/سیم-نفاق-انگلیس،-خط-تلگراف-هندواروپا-و/ "Wires of Discord: England, the Indo-European Telegraph Line and Ottoman-Iranian Border Conflicts"] by Soli Shahvar, ''Iran Namag'' Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2016. Article In Persian with [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.irannamag.com/en/article/سیم-نفاق-انگلیس،-خط-تلگراف-هندواروپا-و/  Google Translate English version] , or if link is unstable use [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate].
=====Historical books online=====
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3ZgvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA208 "Report on the line of Telegraph from Ras Jashk to Basrah"] by Lieutenant A. W. Stiffe, Indian Navy. (Read before the Society, March 17th, 1864), page 208 ''Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 17, January 1863 to December 1864'' Google Books
* ''Telegraph and Travel: a narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines'' by Frederic John Goldsmid, late Chief Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph 1874. [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.78382/mode/2up File 1, easier to read] Archive.org,  Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8017/page/n1/mode/2up File 2, with Map and perhaps better images] Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8017/page/n17/mode/1up Map]
 
====The Indo-European Telegraph Company====
====The Indo-European Telegraph Company====
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-company Indo-European Telegraph Company]  (iranica.com) was privately owned and operated by the Siemens Company. Telegrams along this route commenced from India to London in January 1870
*[https://iranicaonline.org/articles/indo-european-telegraph-company Indo-European Telegraph Company]  (Encyclopaedia Iranica) was privately owned and operated by the Siemens Company. Telegrams along this route commenced from India to London in January 1870
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Indo-Eur/index.htm The Indo-European Telegraph Company] by Steven Roberts  Also includes brief information about the Indo-European Telegraph Department atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Indo-Eur/index.htm The Indo-European Telegraph Company] by Steven Roberts  Also includes brief information about the Indo-European Telegraph Department atlantic-cable.com
*"Europe-India Telegraph “Bridge” via the Caucasus" by Andre Karbelashvili ''Indian Journal of History of Science 26 (3) 1991'' ,pages 277-281 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:pksIrogONZgJ:www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005ac0_277.pdf+Indo-European+Telegraph&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShtxjwfrd1x_leBI-su18ieytDcM63JeJ6FUA4nE11vh6m2BxnZD-aI72c02a-En7-hGHomSSLeTVFd5SNL4yZif-ng_Np4CIZ9zuhcGHOxgQix4bn8eczDCKeZhpVk8deG5mwf&sig=AHIEtbQADc_S_biDpSq2w909i0wn_JThfw html version], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005ac0_277.pdf original pdf]
*[https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol26_3_3_AKarbelashvili.pdf  "Europe-India Telegraph “Bridge” via the Caucasus"] by Andre Karbelashvili ''Indian Journal of History of Science 26 (3) 1991'', pages 277-281. Alternatively from [https://insa.nic.in/UI/Archivesection.aspx Archives at Indian National Science Academy Journals], or [https://web.archive.org/web/20200728142811/https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol26_3_3_AKarbelashvili.pdf archived version].
*[https://www.istampgallery.com/indo-european-telegraph-line-centenary/ A Commemorative postage stamp on the Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service] issued 9 November 1967. istampgallery.com.  This stamp probably relates to the foundation of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, or commencement of construction of it's line. Image of First Day cover.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210125212854/https://www.collectorbazar.com/item/india-first-day-cover-indo-european-telegraph-line-centenary-1967-f1037-123753/ Image of First Day cover, Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service] collectorbazar.com, archived.</ref>
 
==== Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable====
==== Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable====
*[http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1870BritishIndian/index.htm 1870 British - Indian Cable (Bombay - Aden - Suez)] by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com
*[http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1870BritishIndian/index.htm 1870 British - Indian Cable (Bombay - Aden - Suez)] by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com. The British-Indian Submarine Telegraph Company.
**[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/documents-reveal-contents-of-the-first-telegraph-message-between-india-england/articleshow/11976488.cms Documents reveal contents of the first telegraph message between India & England] via thousands of km of cables laid  below the seas, on 23 June, 1870.  economictimes.indiatimes.com Feb 22, 2012.
 
===Records===
[[British Library]]
*Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1877-1878 '''IOR/L/PWD/2/220'''
*Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1865-1869 '''IOR/L/PWD/8/6'''
*Also see '''[[L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928]]'''
*[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=IAMS036-000128340&indx'''Civil Lists IOR/V/13'''], V13/246-276. 1866 to c 1954.  A researcher found a December 1929 death in ''Civil Lists Indian Posts and Telegraph Department  May 1930 to April 1932'', IOR V/13/260. This death was not recorded in the records on [[findmypast]].


===Individuals===
===Individuals===
*[http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap1/Shaughnessy.htm Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889)] - laid the first telegraph system in Asia in addition to his work as a doctor who discovered a modern treatment for cholera, and introduced cannabis to Western medicine.
*[http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap1/Shaughnessy.htm Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889)] - laid the first telegraph system in Asia in addition to his work as a doctor who discovered a modern treatment for cholera, and introduced cannabis to Western medicine.
:''Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India'' by M Adams 1889 [http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofsurgeonm00adamrich Archive.org]
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BiYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 ''Selections From the Records of the Bengal Government No.VII Report On The Electric Telegraph Between Calcutta And Kedgeree''] by W B O’Shaughnessy MD, Superintendent of the Electric Telegraph 1852 Google Books
:''Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India'' by M Adams 1889 [http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofsurgeonm00adamrich Archive.org] . The subject assumed the name of Brooke by Royal Licence in 1861.
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CablePioneers/Stewart/index.htm Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, R.E. Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph] atlantic-cable.com<br>
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CablePioneers/Stewart/index.htm Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, R.E. Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph] atlantic-cable.com<br>
:As part of the Telegraph Department, he played a significant role in the Indian Mutiny. He left England, at the close of 1863, to superintend the laying of the Indo-European sea-cable along the coast of Beloochistan and Persia. He died 16 January 1865 having just accomplished the most difficult part of his task by the completion of the telegraphic line from Bagdad, to Bushire.
:As part of the Telegraph Department, he played a significant role in the Indian Mutiny. He left England, at the close of 1863, to superintend the laying of the Indo-European sea-cable along the coast of Beloochistan and Persia. He died 16 January 1865 having just accomplished the most difficult part of his task by the completion of the telegraphic line from Bagdad, to Bushire.
*[http://www.kilmarnockacademy.co.uk/famousrsmith.htm Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith 1835-1900] an officer in the Royal Engineers who was seconded at the time to work on the development of the Persian telegraph, and became its Director.  kilmarnockacademy.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170112124813/http://www.kilmarnockacademy.co.uk/famousrsmith.htm Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith 1835-1900] an officer in the Royal Engineers who was seconded at the time to work on the development of the Persian telegraph, and became its Director.  kilmarnockacademy.co.uk, now an archived page.
*'"A chronological  biography of Edward Graves" of the IETD, murdered 2 December 1897 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:cqHn52lf-CUJ:www.dandadec.co.uk/page2/files/T%2520GravesE%2520Bio.pdf+%22Royal+Engineers%22+Tehran&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiqv-7kNGtwedSeSqLp5fOUik6mLByVaJJ-lWSpA5WBsW7trXrQcx26gudZ01NAiMzbhHLvXPPtloX1RWW9H3cFFVuGNJBtZK1bSxqgBN1m6t5FolZjBQ47WTv4EHPsrXsoZGV0&sig=AHIEtbQPQhCDoUduAlD1IbIfcF5wXX1L0g html version], [http://www.dandadec.co.uk/page2/files/T%20GravesE%20Bio.pdf original pdf]  dandadec.co.uk
*"John Isaacson of Exning, Persia and India" by Tony Fuller and Jenny Law [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000)'']]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
 
:John Isaacson, who at the time was described as a "Sergeant, RE", arrived in Persia on 11 November 1863 and was posted to the Persian section of the IETD. He died in Bushire in 1892.
 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180215205742/https://dandadec.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/edward-graves1.pdf "A chronological  biography of Edward Graves"] of the IETD, murdered 2 December 1897. dandadec, an archived page.
 
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Latest revision as of 06:22, 15 July 2024

Also known as Posts and Telegraphs Department.

Tea District Post and Telegraph Department photographed by Samuel Cleland Davidson

FIBIS resources

Entry

Related Articles

External links

Historical books online

Probable 1903 edition, (although not cataloged as such) Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Generally poor quality print.
Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, (from page 12) as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
Word Code For Foreign State Telegrams, compiled for the Government of India. Part II-Code Phrase by J H Lane Indian Government Telegraph Department. 4th Edition prepared under the direction of J J Allen. Archive.org. Another file, easier to read in parts but some pages towards the back are scanned/printed upside down. Archive.org. Elsewhere 4th edition was published 1903 (3rd edition 1890 in two volumes Part 1 Phrase, Code]
Article "Compression, Correction, Confidentiality, and Comprehension: A Look at Telegraph Codes" by Steven M. Bellovin "Preliminary version – March 25, 2009". cs.columbia.edu
Article government and colonial administration codes jmcvey.net

Indo-European Telegraph

Telegraph Office , Calcutta

Indo-European Telegraph Department

  • Indo-European Telegraph Department Encyclopaedia Iranica. Construction commenced 1863. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
  • An India List post indicates the IETD was sold to Cable and Wireless in 1931. Also includes some names of employees c 1930.[1]
  • 1859 Suez - Aden - Karachi Cable atlantic-cable.com
    • HMS Retribution assisted in laying the first submarine telegraph cable to India, in the section between Karachi and Aden in 1859.Memories of the Sea, page 155 by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive.org
  • Indian Cables by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com includes
    • Persian Gulf cables of 1864
    • 1869 Duplicate Cable
The through line to London opened to the public in March 1865
"Wires of Discord: England, the Indo-European Telegraph Line and Ottoman-Iranian Border Conflicts" by Soli Shahvar, Iran Namag Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2016. Article In Persian with Google Translate English version , or if link is unstable use Google Translate.
Historical books online
  • "Report on the line of Telegraph from Ras Jashk to Basrah" by Lieutenant A. W. Stiffe, Indian Navy. (Read before the Society, March 17th, 1864), page 208 Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 17, January 1863 to December 1864 Google Books
  • Telegraph and Travel: a narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines by Frederic John Goldsmid, late Chief Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph 1874. File 1, easier to read Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. File 2, with Map and perhaps better images Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India. Map

The Indo-European Telegraph Company

Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable

Records

British Library

  • Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1877-1878 IOR/L/PWD/2/220
  • Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1865-1869 IOR/L/PWD/8/6
  • Also see L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928
  • Civil Lists IOR/V/13, V13/246-276. 1866 to c 1954. A researcher found a December 1929 death in Civil Lists Indian Posts and Telegraph Department May 1930 to April 1932, IOR V/13/260. This death was not recorded in the records on findmypast.

Individuals

Selections From the Records of the Bengal Government No.VII Report On The Electric Telegraph Between Calcutta And Kedgeree by W B O’Shaughnessy MD, Superintendent of the Electric Telegraph 1852 Google Books
Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India by M Adams 1889 Archive.org . The subject assumed the name of Brooke by Royal Licence in 1861.
As part of the Telegraph Department, he played a significant role in the Indian Mutiny. He left England, at the close of 1863, to superintend the laying of the Indo-European sea-cable along the coast of Beloochistan and Persia. He died 16 January 1865 having just accomplished the most difficult part of his task by the completion of the telegraphic line from Bagdad, to Bushire.
John Isaacson, who at the time was described as a "Sergeant, RE", arrived in Persia on 11 November 1863 and was posted to the Persian section of the IETD. He died in Bushire in 1892.

References

  1. Fuller, Tony. Photograph with a lot of names - IETD Station at Bushire, 1930 Rootsweb India List 5 August 2012, now archived
  2. Image of First Day cover, Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service collectorbazar.com, archived.