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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

191. IOR/L/PS/12/3893

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3893
Title:
Coll 30/157A 'Medical Equipment and Drugs for Bahrein Government Hospital'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns assistance given by various British Government departments with the provision from medical suppliers of medical equipment (1938-39) and drugs (1945-50) for the hospital of the Government of Bahrain. The papers include lists of medical equipment requested by the Government of B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1938-30 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (200 folios)

192. IOR/L/PS/12/3894A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3894A
Title:
Coll 30/158 'Koweit: Disturbances, 1938, and consequent administrative changes. Koweit Council.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the circumstances surrounding the recognition by the Ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of an elected Legislative Council (Majlis) in June 1938; and the subsequent administration of the state. The papers include correspondence and reports from the Political Resid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1938-3 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (347 folios)

193. IOR/L/PS/12/3894B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3894B
Title:
Coll 30/158A 'Koweit: Administration and Finances. Financial Adviser for Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the administration and finances of the state of Koweit [Kuwait], and in particular the proposed appointment of a British Financial Adviser to the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], a role similar to that of Charles Dalrymple Belgrave in Bahrain. This was against...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1946-5 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (72 folios)

194. IOR/L/PS/12/3895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3895
Title:
Coll 30/159 'Ownership of Hawar Islands.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the disputed claims of the rulers of Bahrain and Qatar to sovereignty over the Hawar Islands. The issue arose afresh in 1936 in response to a request from Petroleum Concessions Limited to settle the issue of ownership, in order that the Company could claim oil concession rights...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1936-15 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (179 folios)

195. IOR/L/PS/12/3896A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3896A
Title:
Coll 30/160(S) 'C.I.D. Sub Committee for questions concerning Middle East: Measures to influence minor powers & Arab States whose assistance might be of value in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions concerning the Middle East. The Sub-Committee had been charged by the Committee of Imperial Defence to 'investigate and report on the measures which might be taken, either b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1938-18 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

196. IOR/L/PS/12/3896B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3896B
Title:
Coll 30/160 Pt II(S) 'C.I.D. Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Measures to influence Minor Powers & Arab States whose assistance might be of Value in time of war. (Bushire Secret-Service Grant)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the India Office, the Government of India External Affairs Department, HM Treasury, and the Foreign Office concerning the level of the secret service grant of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf for 1946-47. The grant had been paid by the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1945-15 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

197. IOR/L/PS/12/3897

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3897
Title:
Coll 30/160(2) 'Measures to influence minor Powers & Arab States in time of War. Deputation of British Officer to RIYADH. (Capt G. S. de Gaury).'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the appointment of Captain Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury (formerly, the Political Agent, Kuwait) as Political Officer at Riyadh (1939-40). The appointment of a Political Officer, under the orders of HM Minister, Jedda, was proposed in 1939 as a special measure ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1939-21 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

198. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

199. IOR/L/PS/12/3899

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3899
Title:
Coll 30/161 'Oil: Petroleum Developments in the Arabian Peninsula.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the preparation of the following Foreign Office confidential print: 'Note on Petroleum Developments in the Arabian Peninsula. (Prepared in the Petroleum Department, June 1938)', dated 11 June 1938. The file includes the original Petroleum Department version of the paper, dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1938-6 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

200. IOR/L/PS/12/3900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3900
Title:
Coll 30/163 'Boundaries of Persian territory: Status of the islands Tumb, Little Tumb, Abu Musa, Farur, Little Farur and Sirri.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the territorial status of a number of islands in the Persian Gulf. The issue arose in response to a request from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited to the Foreign Office in 1938 concerning the extent of Iranian (generally referred to as Persian) territory, in order that the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1938-19 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)