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21. IOR/R/15/2/636

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/636
Title:
‘File 24/6 KUWAIT PASSPORTS IN BOOK FORM’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two documents only, a short letter of enquiry and a short interim letter of reply, dated 28 December 1936 and 26 January 1937 respectively. The Political Agent, Kuwait, mentions that the Kuwait authorities are planning to introduce a passport system. He asks the Political Agent,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1936-26 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/2/674

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/674
Title:
‘File 28/1 W (Bahrain Defence) N.C.O. – ‘Iraq levy officer’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence related to the recruitment of NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) from Iraq, to serve in the Bahrain Special Police Force. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain, Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban and the Air Officer Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1939-19 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/2/676

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/676
Title:
‘File 28/3 War. Security Intelligence Section. Movements and Activities of Enemy Agents.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to intelligence assessments made of a host of individuals whose background, actions, or suspected pro-Axis Power sympathies prompt British officials to pursue further enquiries into them. Principal correspondents in the file include members of the intel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1939-1 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (160 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/2/696

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/696
Title:
‘File 28/10-(e) War. St. John Philby’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the British Government’s representative at Jedda, and officials at the Government of India and India Office ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1940-27 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/2/813

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/813
Title:
File 31/15 Visits of Members of Al Khalifah to Foreign Countries
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the visits of members of the Al Khalifah to Amara in Iraq for hunting purposes. Discussion focuses on the difficulties created when requests for travel documents did not go through the proper channels. Correspondents include: Cornelius James Pelly, Politi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1949-27 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/2/1193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1193
Title:
File 5/11 I King's Regulations and Amendments under Bahrain Order-in-Council
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning amendments and proposed amendments (by means of King's Regulations) to the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; officials of the Government of India;...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1935-16 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (261 folios)

27. IOR/R/15/2/1384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1384
Title:
‘File 12/14 Shipping. Miscellaneous accidents between dhows and steamers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence concerning three cases involving dhows, as follows: correspondence relating to a collision between a Bahrain-registered dhow and an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company tug at Khorramshahr in November 1943. Much of the follow-up correspondence concerns the seizure by the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
13 Nov 1943-23 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/2/1408

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1408
Title:
‘File 13/18 ILLEGAL TRAVELLING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE AMIR OF JAALAN, - BENI BU ALI, TO MUSCAT SUBJECTS.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Passport Officer, Bahrain; and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence contains reports of three instances where Arab and Indian travellers used an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1929-10 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/2/1590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1590
Title:
‘16/81 Re: Somalis Arrived in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to twenty Somalis who arrived in Bahrain from Qatar in February 1949, claiming to be survivors of a shipwrecking off the coast of Muscat. The papers include: an account by the survivors of their shipwrecking and journey to Bahrain (f 5, f 9); correspondence exchanged between the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1949-11 Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/2/1748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1748
Title:
File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and documents related to passport and visa regulations in the various Shaikhdoms of the Gulf, primarily in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The majority of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Political Agency in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1929-16 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)