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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [140v] (285/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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246
‘Miscellaneous.
Gost.
The rates of pay are as follows in krans per mensem.—
* Swedish Commandant
Rs.
2,330
* Polish Instructor
1,900
Colonel
1,250
Lieutenant-Colonel
1,000
Major
700
'Captain
550
Ist-Lieutenant
400
:2nd-Lieutenant .
300
Aspirant
150
Sergeant-Major
90
Sergeant
r *
80
Corporal
50
Private
30
All ranks receive a ration of 16 “ sirs ” of wheat per diem.
The bread is supplied by the Government bakeries in the town,
the C. O.of each unit receiving daily from Brigade headquarters
a demand note on the Government baker according to the
strength return of the unit. While on command all ranks
receive an allowance equal to ^rd of their pay.
The Brigade headquarters are located in convenient quarters
in the Maidan-i-Tupkhaneh. The Non-Commissioned Officers’
school is in a house rented for the purpose in the town, small
and unsuitable. The three regiments are in Government
barracks, located in different parts of the town. The barracks
are built in a similar manner, a series of rooms round three
sides of a square. In the case of the cavalry and artillery a
portion of the rooms has been converted into stables or gun
sheds.
36. The system of drill and training is Swedish, but the
brigade being as it is at present, unequipped, unarmed, un
officered and untrained, it may be said to possess no military
value whatever. The office work and administrative arrange
ments of the Brigade headquarters are on sound lines.
37. The total cost of the force is about 4,327,000 krans per
annum. ’ ’
* Note In 1920 the Swedish and Polish officers were removed and British
officers were attached to the Brigade. Arms were supplied from Kazvin, but
taken back on their dismissal. It has now no foreign officers. The senior Persian
officers were found to be hostile to reform, totally incompetent, and accustomed
to batten on the proceeds of their patronage, all promotion being given oa
payment.
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 303; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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