South Persia Rifles
FIBIS Resources
- Richard Skinner Collection
- John Skinner Memoirs in the South Persia Rifles He was attached as a Sub-Conductor of the Indian Army Ordnance Corps to the South Persia Rifles 1916 - 1921
British Library records
- Collection 425/518 Employment of Indian Army officers with Persian Cossack Force (South Persia Military Police) IOR/L/MIL/7/17697 1916. This catalogue reference perhaps refers to the South Persia Rifles.
Related articles
External links
- South Persia Rifles - Encyclopaedia Iranica
- South Persia Rifles - Wikipedia
- South Persia Rifles by Floreeda Safiri, 2010 University of Edinburgh Phd thesis. Edinburgh Research Archive. Also available to download from British Library EthOS- Electronic Theses Online Service
- State and Tribes in Persia 1919-1925. A case study On Political Role of the Great Tribes in Southern Persia vorgelegt von: Javad Karandish Berlin, Januar 2003. Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie (Dr. Phil.) Freie Universität Berlin Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaften . Contains references to the South Persia Rifles.
- South Persia Rifles (British Officers). House of Commons 11 May 1922 vol 153 cc2358-9
- "An instrument of British meddling in and muddling out of Iran during and after the First World War - The South Persia Rifles, 1916 to 1921" by Tom Burke, uploaded March 2016. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association website.
- Captain Newton Williams, awarded the Military Cross and the South Persia Rifles. Includes photographs. National Army Museum.
Historical books online
- "Persia and the Great War" page 154 Persia by Brigadier- General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org. Includes information about the South Persia Rifles from page 158
- See FIBIS Resources above for John Skinner memoirs.