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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
:[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1865  ''Persia''] by Sir Arnold Wilson  1932. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".
:[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1865  ''Persia''] by Sir Arnold Wilson  1932. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway''].  File created 8 May 1922. British Library: India Office Records IOR/L/PS/18/C208, in Qatar Digital Library . It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
*First World War period and later: British Library India Office Records  on Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000142 ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'']. A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly in 1929. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/28
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000143 ''Despatch by Brigadier-General Sir P. M. Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.M.G., Inspector-General, South Persia Rifles and Commanding British Mission Escort in Persia on Minor Operations in Southern Persia. From 7th November 1917 to 31st March 1918''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/29
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000144 ''Reports On Minor Operatons In South Persia Under Brigadier-General Sir P. M. Sykes, K.C.I.E, C.M.G., from May to July 1918''] by General Staff India. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/30
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000145 ''Report by H. E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the Minor Military Operations undertaken from 1917 to 1921 in North and North East Persia''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/31
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000146 ''Report by H. E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the Minor Military Operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles from November 1919 to November 1921''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/32
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000147 ''Report on minor operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles from the 28th March to the 25th June 1917'']  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/33. A despatch from Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes, Inspector General, South Persia Rifles, to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla, which provides details of five minor military operations undertaken against tribes in southern Persia. Five sketch maps appear at the end (ff 9-11).
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000148 ''Despatch by Lieutenant-General R. Wapshare, C.B., C.S.I. on the Organization and Working of the East Persian Line of Communications. From 1st April 1918 to 15th January 1919''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/34
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000149 ''Report on the Working of the Line of Communication and on the Withdrawal of the British Military Mission in East Persia, 1919-20'']. General Staff India. 1921,  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/35
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00014a ''Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921'']  (1921) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00015d ''Handbook of the Persian Army''] (1925) produced by the General Staff Branch, India, for the use of Government of India officials. There is an appendix containing a glossary of names of ranks and branches within the Persian Army (folio 58). Between folios 59-68 are illustrative plates featuring pictures of officers' badges of rank and of various members of the Persian military dressed in their full uniform according to their position in the Army. The volume contains an index (folios 69-70) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/37
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00015e ''Glossary of Persian military terms, with Appendix I, containing ranks of the Persian Army; Appendix II, containing musketry terms'']  (1926) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/38
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00015f ''Notes on the Iranian Army''] (1940) produced by the General Staff in India. The purpose of the volume was to provide Government of India officials with useful information about the Iranian Army, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/39
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000160 ''Persia Intelligence Report. May, 1946'' [Part V<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  produced by Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty, May 1946. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/40
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway''].  File created 8 May 1922.  IOR/L/PS/18/C208. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208590 ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by  Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208590 ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by  Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially  in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s.  He then joined the  Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his  later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details  are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially  in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s.  He then joined the  Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his  later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details  are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.

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Iran was previously known as Persia. This page also includes the Persian Gulf and surrounding areas.

Also see

FIBIS resources

Records

The journal Iran is available at the British Library. These articles may also be read in full through the website JSTOR, including through the free access provisions, see Miscellaneous tips-Access some articles in the JSTOR subscription website for free
There are also some records for Iran in the "World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch

FIBIS resources

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.

External links

Maps

Historical books online

Also see Gazetteers - Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia
A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available. Archive.org mirror versions: Volume 1, Volume II, Volume III.
Central Asia. Part V. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the History, Ethnography, Topography, and resources of part of Asiatic Turkey and Caucasia compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel C M Macgregor 1872. Qatar Digital Library.
Volume II. Zoology and Geology by W T Blanford. 1876 Archive.org
Persia Revisited by General Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, formerly Military Attache and Oriental Secretary to Her Majesty’s Legation at Tehran. 1896 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
A History of Persia by Lieut-Col P M Sykes 1915 Archive.org Volume I, Volume II;
Vol I, 2nd edition 1921. Also available World Digital Library Library of Congress. Images and maps may be better/ rotatable. Click on image to read online. Vol II, 2nd edition 1921 Archive.org;
Vol I, 3rd edition 1930, Vol II, 3rd edition 1930 Archive.org.
Persia by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org including
British Library Untold lives blog ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer 08 February 2014 (retrieved 18 June 2014)
The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
Political Frontiers and Boundary Making by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1916
"Between the Tigris and the Indus" by Colonel Sir Thomas H Holdich The Geographical Review Volume IV September 1, 1917 Archive.org
Persia by Sir Arnold Wilson 1932. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".

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