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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/10 Name HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1930- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1167
Title:
File 351/1926 ‘Arabia: Nejd: Employment of British airmen by Ibn Saud Hejazi Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, mainly Foreign Office despatches received from Jedda, relating to the creation of the Hejaz Air Force by Ibn Saud, with the assistance of the British Government and British air personnel. The main correspondents are the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1926-18 Jul 1931
Extent:

1 volume (700 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1245
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 14 'Nejd-Koweit: Proposals for a comprehensive settlement between Ibn Saud & the Sheikh of Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of the British Government to mediate a settlement of the differences between the Shaikh of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit), Sir Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hej...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1929-3 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (401 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1247
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 16 'Iraq-Nejd Frontier: Bon Voisinage agreement between Iraq & Nejd'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (926 folios)