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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/2/651-765 Name Political Resident, Persian Gulf, 1822-1971 Level [40] File

1. IOR/R/15/2/653

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/653
Title:
‘File 28/1 B 1. Gift of £30,000 of Shaikh of Bahrain to the British Government; 2. Purchase of fighter aircraft; 3. Persian Gulf Fighter Fund’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to a financial gift made to the British Government by the Ruler of Bahrain, and a fund set up for the purchase of fighter plans for the Persian Gulf: correspondence relating to the receipt and cashing of a gift of £30,000 made by the Ruler of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1939-23 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/654

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/654
Title:
‘File 28/1 C Ammunition for Bahrain Government’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to a consignment of 100,000 rounds of ammunition given to the Government of Bahrain as a gift by the Government of India. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman); the Political Resident in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1939-18 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (43 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/657
Title:
‘File 28/1 G Bahrain Special Police’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to the day-to-day organisation of the Bahrain Special Police, occasionally referred to as the Bahrain Defence Force, including arrangements for recruitment, training, pay, provisions, expenses, etc. The principal correspondents in the file are...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1939-27 Sep 1945
Extent:
1 file (130 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/658
Title:
‘File 28/1 H Proposal for provision of Indian Infantry Company for Bahrain defence’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises three items: a copy of a telegram (f 2) from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay) to the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) dated 28 May 1940. The Resident states that he is considering requesting a company of Indian infan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1940-29 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/669
Title:
‘File 28/1 P Visit of enemy aircraft to Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to an air raid carried out by Italian bombers over the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) refinery in Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia, on the night...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1940-7 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/675
Title:
‘File 28/2 War. Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf states’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of official notices and correspondence relating to prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf (the capture of enemy vessels and cargo) during the Second World War, based on the understanding, as described in a letter from the Political Resident to his Agents, dated 16 Novem...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1939-28 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (144 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/680

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/680
Title:
‘File 28/5 II License for export of oil from Bahrain. Rules, Regulations & correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the issue of licences (also referred to as permits) for petroleum exports from Bahrain during the Second World War, and to questions over the continuation of the issue of the same licences in the immediate post-war period. Correspondents i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-9 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/687

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/687
Title:
‘File 28/7 I War: Propaganda: local opinion’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises reports and correspondence concerning: the dissemination of pro-British and Allied propaganda in Bahrain and the wider Persian Gulf region, as prepared and coordinated by the Publicity Office in Bahrain; the reception of anti-British propaganda in Bahrain, chiefly via radio ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 May 1940-15 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/688

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/688
Title:
‘File 28/7 II War: Propaganda – Local Opinion’
Scope & Content:
The file, a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 28/7 I War: Propaganda: local opinion’ (IOR/R/15/2/687), comprises reports and correspondence concerning: the dissemination of pro-British and Allied propaganda in Bahrain and the wider Persian Gulf region, as prepared and coordinated by the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1942-12 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (341 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/690

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/690
Title:
‘File 28/8 War. Evacuation of Bushire’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to British officials’ fears of the possibility of a German coup in Iran, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf’s (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior) proposals for the evacuation of Bushire, should circumstance necessitate it. The file co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1940-31 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)