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551. IOR/R/15/2/273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/273
Title:
‘File 7/6 Proposal to construct ammunition dump at Bahrain & Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents concern the establishment of an ammunition and bomb store at the Royal Air Force (RAF) aerodrome at Sharjah. Mention is made of the requirement for a bomb store at the RAF base at Bahrain at the beginning of the file, but it does not constitute a significant part of the file....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1935-26 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

552. IOR/R/15/2/278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/278
Title:
‘File 7/12 II Protection of aerodromes by levies (and locally recruited guards)’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents concern the withdrawal of Royal Air Force (RAF) levies from the RAF bases at Bahrain and Sharjah in response to the end of the Second World War, and subsequent arrangements to replace the levies with guards to maintain security at these bases. The principal correspondents in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1945-24 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

553. IOR/R/15/2/360

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/360
Title:
File 9/12 Gray, Mackenzie & Co Ltd: affairs and activities in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the activities of Gray Mackenzie & Co. Gray Mackenzie & Co requests from the Government of Bahrain a renewal of the licence to act as landing company for loading and discharging goods in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1934-2 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)

554. IOR/R/15/2/442

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/442
Title:
File 10/15 Annex. Radio telephone communications between Bahrain and Dhahran
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and telegrams by the Political Agent at Bahrain, authorising the use of radio telephonic communications between Bahrain and Dharhan, to communicate messages for California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), and confirmati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1942-3 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (80 folios)

555. IOR/R/15/2/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/456
Title:
File 10/32 Strike by crew of SS Alfred Clegg (Panamania)
Scope & Content:
The file contains the copy of a memorandum sent by the Superintendent of the State Police in Bahrain on the strike of 25 members of the crew of the Steam Ship Alfred Clegg at Sitra, demanding better pay. There is an index at the end of the file (folio 3).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1947-12 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

556. IOR/R/15/2/500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/500
Title:
File 12/10 Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, Hugh Weightman, mostly from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political agent at Sharjah, regarding arrangements and programmes for his official visits to the Persian Gulf in 1939 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1935-30 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (239 folios)

557. IOR/R/15/2/511

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/511
Title:
‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to requests from foreign airlines – chiefly the Dutch company Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) and Air France – to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and its aerodrome facilities at Bahrain, Gwadur [Gwādar, then a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Sep 1932-30 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

558. IOR/R/15/2/602

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/602
Title:
File 20/1 II Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:

1 volume (283 folios)

559. IOR/R/15/2/641

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/641
Title:
‘File 25/5 Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of the Charter of the United Nations (ff 5-10), signed on 26 June 1945, on the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, held in San Francisco. Also included in the file, as part of the Charter, is a printed copy of the Statute of the Inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1946-1 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

560. IOR/R/15/2/738

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/738
Title:
‘File 28/43 Removal of the pilot-balloon observatory in a grave emergency’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence relating to the operation of Bahrain’s Pilot Balloon Observatory, used to recorded meteorological data, during wartime. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); and the Superintending Meteorolo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1942-28 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)