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

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2029

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2029
Title:
Coll 5/67 ‘Crashes of British aircraft in neutral countries during the war’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small number of papers related to the crashes of Royal Air Force (RAF) machines in neutral countries; the file focuses on neutral countries of interest to the India Office. The vast majority of the papers focus on a single incident in September 1939: the crash landing of an R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1939-29 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/274

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/274
Title:
‘File 7/9 Unauthorised flights by RAF’
Scope & Content:
The file’s correspondence, papers and other items relate to unauthorised flights and emergency landings in Saudi territory by British aircraft. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Agent in Kuwait (these two posts being held by a number of in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1936-17 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/275
Title:
‘File 7/10 Mishaps to R.A.F. aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The letters, telegrams and other papers in the file relate to various forced landings or crashes of Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft, as well as other incidents involving the RAF, in and around the Gulf, during and immediately after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1940-14 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (96 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/524

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/524
Title:
‘File 13/16 Crash of American aircraft on T.C. [Trucial Coast]’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of telegrams sent amongst British officials in the Gulf, in response to an American aircraft reported lost along the Arab coast, while flying on en route between Abadan and Karachi. A telegram sent by the British Agent at Sharjah to the Political Agent in Bahrain, dated 3...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1945-31 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1538
Title:
‘File 16/33 (a) Death and burial of Lt Heinemann in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the burial at the Christian Cemetery in Bahrain of Lieutenant Peter Dabney Heinemann, who died in a flying accident at Bahrain in December 1931. The correspondence records the subsequent upkeep of his grave by representatives of the American Mission in Bahrain, financed by annu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1931-17 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1686
Title:
File 21/35 Accidents to British Overseas Airways Corporation planes
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, with enclosures, between the Political Agency at Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) relating to the crash of BOAC flying boat number G-AHZB on 23 August 1947. The aircraft crashed into the sea on landing, killing ten of the twenty-six pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1947-3 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)