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1. IOR/R/15/2/651-765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651-765
Title:
File 28 [Second World] War
Scope & Content:
The Second World War subject files cover a wide range of topics affecting Bahrain in the time leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the Second World War. The files may be broadly arranged under the following categories: oil production at Bahrain, managed by the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1930-1950
Extent:
115 files (13,409 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/714

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/714
Title:
‘File 28/22-II Staff Officer (Intelligence) Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a single item of correspondence, a confidential note from the Staff Officer (Intelligence) Persian Gulf (Lieutenant RNVR [Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve] I Setter), addressed to all Persian Gulf Reporting Officers, dated 12 April 1946, announcing his taking up of duties from 3 A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1946-15 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/736

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/736
Title:
‘File 28/41 Reorganisation of command in Persia & Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, chiefly in the form of Most Secret communiqués from Tenth Army HQ in Iraq, relating to the reorganisation of Britain’s military forces in Iraq and Persia [Iran] during the Second World War. The file includes: correspondence from Tenth Army HQ marked Most Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1942-16 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/742
Title:
‘File 28/48 Head: War. Priority Passages (Air)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and papers relating to requests for priority air passages, chiefly from Bahrain to Cairo, or from Karachi to Bahrain, which were received, processed and authorised through the Political Agency at Bahrain. The largest proportion of the file covers the p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1943-9 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (284 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/704

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/704
Title:
‘File 28/16 Jurisdiction over neutral ships in Bahrain & Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, instructions and other papers relating to questions of jurisdiction over foreign (neutral) vessels in Bahrain and Kuwait waters, and British officials’ legal powers over the crew of such vessels. The correspondence was provoked by a specific incident ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1939-13 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/689

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/689
Title:
‘File 28/7 III Public opinion and general publicity’
Scope & Content:
The file, a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 28/7 II War: Propaganda – Local Opinion’ (IOR/R/15/2/688), comprises weekly reports describing local public opinion in Bahrain, in relation to events and the general course of the war, both in Europe and the Far East, covering the period fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1944-9 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (75 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/721

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/721
Title:
‘File 28/29 Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence received from or relating to the Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq (CICI), including: a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior) to his Political Agents, dated 1941, concerning the establishment ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1941-18 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/741

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/741
Title:
‘File 28/46-I Miscellaneous war requirements’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence associated with a miscellaneous assortment of matters arising in wartime Bahrain: an enquiry from the Government of India in November 1942, for 2,600 mother of pearl shells, which are required by the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcut...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1942-27 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (75 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/710

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/710
Title:
‘File 28/19 Export of oil and other articles from the Persian Gulf to Italian East Africa (dhow traffic)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and reports relating to outward trade from Bahrain and the ports of the Trucial Coast to the ports of the Red Sea and East Africa, in response to concerns that some cargoes (and in particular oil) were reaching Italian East Africa and Italian-occupied British So...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1940-31 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/709
Title:
‘File 28/18 Sabotage smuggling etc of mail’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and notes relating to the possible sabotage and smuggling of mail: a telegram from the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG), dated 18 November 1940, reporting a suspected case of sabotage in which a leaking jar of acid was found in a mail bag (f 2); a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1940-22 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)