Ext 5393/43 'Vesey Fitzgerald, Locust officer in Arabia'
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Thefile contains correspondence regarding arrangements for sending post to VeseyFitzgerald, an officer for the Anti-Locust Research Centre based in Arabia. Thecorrespondents are the India Office and the Colonial Office.
This file comprises telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, and notes on the question of a possible decoration for Mr Bertram Sydney Thomas, following his successful crossing of the Empty Quarter from Salalah in Oman to Doha in Qatar in an expedition which took place from December 1930 to February...
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Government of India, External Affairs Department, and the India Office, regarding the despatch of the same telegrams by mistake both enciphered and en clair.
This file consists primarily of a letter between the Military Department in Clarence House, London, and the India Office regarding the location of Colonel Bourguin, a French citizen who left New Delhi for London to join the Fighting French. Both the India office and War Office are unsure of Bourg...
Ext 2178/45 'Memo by Mr Lawrence Lockhart on Persia'
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The file contains a request from Lawrence Lockhart of the Foreign Office for clarification of certain details relating to the border between Persia and British Baluchistan, for use in a memorandum he is compiling on Persia.
Pol Ext 8084/49 'Deportations - Nominal. Rashid Ahmed Chugtai'
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This file consists of correspondence between the Foreign Office, HM Ambassador, Amman, and the Commonwealth Relations Office regarding the deportation of Rashid Ahmed Chughtai, a representative of an Ahmedia [Ahmadiyya] organization of Pakistan, from Jordan to Syria.
Ext 2800/43 'Persia. Sanction to Lease of Lands + Buildings at Dustak'
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This file consists of memoranda from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding the sanction to lease lands and buildings at Dustak [Dastak, Iran].
Ext 6626/43 'Mrs H B Sinclair: request for passages to Persia'
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The file contains correspondence regarding a request by Margaret Sinclair for assistance in obtaining a permit to travel to Persia with her daughter to join her husband HB Sinclair, a former Vice-Consul at Bushire. Other than Mrs Sinclair, the primary correspondent is the India Office.
Ext 7265/47 'Major R F Pemberton (enquiry about Sir Denys Bray)'
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This file contains correspondence between R F Pemberton and J Ross, Secretary at the India Office in London, regarding the name of a British Political Officer. In a letter, R F Pemberton informs Ross that he is writing a short historical play regarding the evacuation of civilians from Kabul betw...