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91. 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)

92. IOR/R/15/2/678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/678
Title:
‘File 28/4 Trading with the enemy’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of printed circulars and notices issued by the British Government, memoranda and letters issued by the Government of India, and copies of correspondence to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to trade with countries and territories regarded as the enemy, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1939-4 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 volume (498 folios)

93. 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)

94. IOR/R/15/2/731

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/731
Title:
‘File 28/37 Dhow launches &c. for war purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to miscellaneous calls and requests for dhows and other watercraft, to perform various tasks related to wartime measures, including: transport of war equipment; use as floating craft platforms for wireless observation equipment; to assist in importing p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1942-17 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

95. IOR/R/15/2/693

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/693
Title:
‘File 28/10 (b) Bonafides of C.A.S.O.C. [California-Arabian Standard Oil Company] & Bapco [Bahrain Petroleum Company] employees.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to investigations made by the Political Agency in Bahrain, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and British Government departments, into CASOC and BAPCO employees suspected of having ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1940-28 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

96. IOR/R/15/2/764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/764
Title:
‘File 28/78 Shaikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait’s messages of loyalty and BAPCO’s [Bahrain Petroleum Company’s] offer of help at outbreak of war – Shaikh’s gift’
Scope & Content:
The file includes letters, telegrams and other papers relating to messages of support received by British Government officials in the Gulf, from the Rulers of Bahrain, Dubai and Sharjah, and from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), in response to events in Europe that resulted in Britain’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1939-13 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

97. 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)

98. IOR/R/15/2/684

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/684
Title:
‘File 28/5 (a) I War. Proposed extension of export licensing system’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and statistical data relating to the monitoring of imports and exports of important commodities into and out of Bahrain and the states of the Trucial Coast, as part of the wider export license controls and Navicert system of trade and contraband contr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1941-6 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (373 folios)

99. IOR/R/15/2/718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/718
Title:
‘File 28/28-(i) Military requirements (purchases etc. for the army)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the acquisition of oil industry equipment and supplies from the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for use by British military headquarters at Basra, Iraq (later referr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-29 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (305 folios)

100. 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)