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Subject Second World War (1939-1945) Level [38] SubSubSeries

1. IOR/R/15/1/617A-B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/617A-B
Title:
File 79: Second World War
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes contain correspondence pertaining to emergency legislation, regulations, and precautions put into place in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and the Trucial Coast during the Second World War. The correspondence is between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1939-1947
Extent:
2 files and volumes (323 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/259-293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/259-293
Title:
File 7 Royal Air Force
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes in the series deal with the activities of the Royal Air Force (RAF), and to a lesser extent Imperial Airways/British Overseas Airways Corporation, in the Gulf, before, during and after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the files are the numerous incumben...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1929-1950
Extent:
35 files and volumes (3,171 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/538-542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/538-542
Title:
File 14 Foreign Interests
Scope & Content:
The files contain correspondence, notes, and memoranda exchanged between various British Government offices, regional governments, and representatives of several commercial companies and other institutions. Many of the files relate to the activities and employment of foreign nationals (American, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1936-1949
Extent:
5 files (105 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/766-794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766-794
Title:
File 29 War: Food Supplies
Scope & Content:
The 29 surviving files about wartime food supplies contain the correspondence of the Political Agent for Bahrain with other British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and India, as well as rulers, officials and merchants in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar. They discuss the maintena...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1940-1950
Extent:
29 files (5,479 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/471-472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/471-472
Title:
File 25: War
Scope & Content:
These sub-sub-series 'War' contains files that pertain to wartime administrative instructions for the Muscat Political Agency from the Government of India. IOR/R/15/6/471 concerns the censorship of communications to and from Muscat during the Second World War, while IOR/R/15/6/472 relates to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1939-1943
Extent:
2 volumes (465 folios)