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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Abduction Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3469
Title:
Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Luristan Affairs.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and reports from British officials in Persia [Iran]: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; the Military Attaché at Tehran, P C R Dodd; HM’s Consul for Khuzistan [Khūzestān], Arnold Edwards Watkinson. The correspondence concerns civ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1932-26 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3793

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3793
Title:
Coll 30/76 'Koweit: Abduction to Koweit of two Persian customs guards, by the crew of a Persian dhow.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the abduction from Dilam [Bandar-e Deylam] in Persia to Koweit [Kuwait] of two Persian customs guards by the crew of a Persian dhow. The nakhoda of the dhow feared punishment after his cargo was judged to be contraband by the Persian authorities, and so fled to Kuwait, with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1934-26 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/614

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/614
Title:
‘File 21/13 DETENTION OF MUSCAT SUBJECT BY AMIR OF ZAKRIT'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the abduction and enslavement of a young man from Muscat, who was found working at Petroleum Concessions Limited’s (PCL) oilfields in Qatar, and attempts by the Political Agent and others, including Saleh Al Mana [Ṣāliḥ Āl Māni‘], a representative of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1948-27 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/757
Title:
‘File 28/66 U.S.A.T.C. [United States Army Transport Corps] at Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to: 1) construction work at RAF Sharjah to accommodate troops and equipment of the United States Army Transport Corps (USATC); 2) questions over the policing of US troops at Sharjah, raised prior to and after an incident of alleged attempted a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1942-13 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1879

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1879
Title:
‘FILE. B/11. KIDNAPPING ON TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation of individual cases of the kidnapping and sale into slavery of Arab and Persian inhabitants of Ajman, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al Qiwin [Umm ul-Qaiwain]. These offences are committed mainly by Bedouins belonging to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1936-20 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)