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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Air Ministry, 1918-1964

101. IOR/L/PS/12/3937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3937
Title:
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1938-8 Mar 1951
Extent:
1 file (430 folios)

102. IOR/L/PS/12/4088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4088
Title:
Coll 34/1 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Slave traffic in the Red Sea: Use of Air Patrols'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to anti-slavery measures in the Red Sea. The correspondence is interdepartmental in nature, principally between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, and the Foreign and Political Department of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1930-21 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

103. IOR/L/PS/12/4101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4101
Title:
Coll 35/2 'Persia and Persian Gulf: steamer arrangements in the Persian Gulf; including arrangements for the carriage and delivery of consular and diplomatic mails to posts in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the dispatch of consular and diplomatic mails by steamer and air mail service to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers: Transmission of sealed bags, containing official correspondence, to consular officers in Persia [Iran] Negotiations with Persian Government for the transmis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1930-13 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (579 folios)

104. IOR/L/PS/12/4102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4102
Title:
Coll 35/2(2) 'Transmission of air mail bags to and from Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the dispatch of air mail diplomatic bags to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers the proposal to send Persian Gulf mail by RAF from Bahrain, in 1944. The file is composed of correspondence between the Air Ministry, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1943-5 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

105. IOR/L/PS/12/4109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4109
Title:
Coll 35/6 'Arabia: Hejaz-Nejd; wireless stations; postal and telegraph communications with the outside world'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal communications in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd and, later, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The file covers: Desire of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to establish wireless stations in Hejaz and Nejd, 1926-29 Proposed wireless communicati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1925-17 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (514 folios)

106. IOR/L/PS/12/4113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4113
Title:
Coll 35/11 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain wireless station; refusal of Persian government to accept telegraphic traffic to or from Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns wireless telegraph stations at Bahrain, telegraphic communications between Bushire and Bahrain, and the refusal of the Persian Government to accept telegraphic traffic to or from Bahrain. There is a sketch representing the cables and wireless system in the Persian Gulf, on foli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1932-23 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (140 folios)

107. IOR/L/PS/12/4116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4116
Title:
Coll 35/13 'Persian Gulf: public wireless telegraph station at Sharjah'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file contains agreements with the ruler of Sharjah for the establishment of an air station by Imperial Airways, and correspondence related to the opening of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1933-26 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/12/4119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4119
Title:
Coll 35/16 'Opening of an Indian Post Office at Dubai: postal arrangements in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal offices in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: Discussions on the proposal to open a Post Office at Sharjah, 1933-37 Discussions on the proposal to open a Post Office in Dubai, 1938 Note on the Indian Post and Telegraph Services in the Persian Gulf, 1946 Future adminis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1933-10 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (368 folios)

109. IOR/L/PS/20/C204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C204
Title:
‘IRAQ COMMAND REPORT APRIL, 1924-NOVEMBER, 1926.’
Scope & Content:
This volume is a report submitted to the British Air Ministry by Air Vice-Marshal John Frederick Andrews Higgins. It consists of a chronological narrative of significant military events in Iraq during his time as Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq, from April 1924 until November 1926...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1924-Nov 1926
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

110. IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1
Title:
'MILITARY REPORT ON ’IRAQ, VOLUME I: (GENERAL)'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of Military Report on ’Iraq, Volume I: General, published in 1936 and prepared by the Command of the Air Ministry. The volume contains a variety of information about ’Iraq [Iraq], including its geography, economy, population and history. It is divided into nine chapters unde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936
Extent:

1 volume (166 folios)