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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Sub-Postmaster, Bahrain, Mid 20th century

1. IOR/R/15/2/562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/562
Title:
File No. 17/9 MAILS BETWEEN BAHRAIN & IRAN
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Agent at Bahrain (Reginald George Evelin Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield), the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain, Secretary to the External Affairs Department of the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
21 Sep 1937-8 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (203 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1411

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1411
Title:
File 14/1 IV General correspondence regarding postal matters and conveyance of mails at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes, telegrams, correspondence and notices regarding postal matters: conveyance of mail at Bahrain, dispatch of mail from Bahrain, air mail fees in 1945 (folios 132-133), and postal facilities in the Persian Gulf area. The principal correspondents are: Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo;...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1941-19 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (224 files)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1416

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1416
Title:
File 14/3 II Establishments, pay and allowances etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding staff, pay, and allowances at the Post Office in Bahrain. The file mainly concerns drinking water allowance, house rent allowance and other benefits for Post Office clerks, and includes a letter signed by all staff requesting a pay rise. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1939-11 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1417
Title:
File 14/4 Post Office at Moharraq
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding the need for facilities to convey mail at Moharraq (Muharraq, Bahrain) and the subsequent arrangements for the opening of a Post Office, staffed with a postman sent from Manama via boat twice a week to make deliveries, clean the letterbox ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1928-26 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1421

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1421
Title:
File 14/6 Postal commission on Government Servants' money orders
Scope & Content:
A 1930s file which includes material from 1909-1911 collected for reference (folios 2-25). There are no papers between 1911 and 1933. The file concerns the establishment of money order service between Bahrain and Turkey and between Bahrain and India, and its increase from 1933. The corresponden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1909-28 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1426

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1426
Title:
File 14/11 I Re: Security, Deposit, Accounts etc in the Post Office Savings Bank; Rules
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Finance Department of the Government of India, the British Residency at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Agent at Muscat, and the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain. The Finance Department of the Government of India asks for views on secur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1940-24 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1428

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1428
Title:
File 14/13 Miscellaneous postal correspondence regarding despatch of foreign mails, telegrams etc
Scope & Content:
The first part of the file contains correspondence, notices and telegrams regarding various subjects: arrangements for the dispatch of mail and for the despatch of parcels and gifts to the United Kingdom during 1944 and 1945; restrictions on dispatch of Christmas cards and parcels for prisoners ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1944-30 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)