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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Royal Air Force, 1918- Digitised Content No

1. IOR/R/15/2/118-120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/118-120
Title:
File 7 Military and Marine
Scope & Content:
The Military and Marine files contain details of military affairs, especially concerning the Royal Air Force, affecting Bahrain and the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1921-1931
Extent:
3 files (478 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/259-293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/259-293
Title:
File 7 Royal Air Force
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes in the series deal with the activities of the Royal Air Force (RAF), and to a lesser extent Imperial Airways/British Overseas Airways Corporation, in the Gulf, before, during and after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the files are the numerous incumben...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1929-1950
Extent:
35 files and volumes (3,171 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1685

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1685
Title:
File 21/34 Casualties sustained by the labourers in the R. A. F. and Payment of Compensation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence relating to compensation payments to employees (or their families) who suffered injury or death while working at the Royal Air Force (RAF) camp in Bahrain. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Resident Agent at the RAF stat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1945-7 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (188 folios)

4. WOMAT/RAS/ADE/3

Reference (shelfmark):
WOMAT/RAS/ADE/3
Title:
Aden West of Mukalla. Plotted from Air-Photos by R[oyal].A[ir].F[orce]. Aden. [1929]
Scope & Content:
Bromide copy of composite produced from three sheets at an original scale of 1:253,440. Covers an area approximately twenty miles west of Mukalla in southern Aden Protectorate and extending a further hundred miles westwards and eighty miles northwards. Portrays hydrology, relief by forms lines,...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 map sheet

5. WOMAT/RAS/ADE/4

Reference (shelfmark):
WOMAT/RAS/ADE/4
Title:
'Yafa District, 80 Miles N[orth].N[orth].E[ast]. of Aden. Compiled from Air Photographs and Sketches by F[light]/L[ieutenant]. A.R.M. Rickards.'
Scope & Content:
Covers an area of approximately twenty-five miles by forty miles in Yafa District, western Aden Protectorate. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, tracks, settlements, cultivation and place names, and includes topographical notes. Eastern margin trimmed. 'From Air Ministry original. (Amplifi...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 map sheet

6. WOMAT/RAS/ADE/6

Reference (shelfmark):
WOMAT/RAS/ADE/6
Title:
'Sketch Map of Nisab-Wadi Beihan Route'. Created by Flight Lieutenant A R M Rickards, Royal Air Force.
Scope & Content:
Covers an area of approximately sixty miles by eighty miles in western Aden Protectorate, and depicts an expedition route from Nisab 50 miles westwards to Wadi Beihan. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and spot heights, settlements, landing grounds, place names and the expedition route, and...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931?
Extent:
1 map sheet