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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Socotra, Arabian Sea

1. IOR/L/PS/18/B42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B42
Title:
Memorandum by Lieutenant-General J. W. Schneider, C.B.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum from Sir John William Schneider, Politcal Resident at Aden, on British interests in Socotra. It includes opinions on Lieutenant-Colonel Kitchener's misapprehensions with regards to British influence at Socotra [Suquṭrā]; discusses the treaty or agreement concl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1886
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1460

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1460
Title:
Coll 1/24 'Aden Protectorate: status of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the status of Socotra [Suquṭrā], and a visit made by the Resident to the island and to the eastern borders of the Aden Protectorate. Papers dated 1926 consist of a text of the following questions asked by Viscount Sandon in the House of Commons: whether any Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1926-4 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/215
Title:
File 332/1912 'Sokotra: looting of the Kuala; Development of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, and minutes relating to the looting of the SS Kuala by inhabitants of Socotra following its grounding off the coast of the island in November 1911. Some of the correspondence is included as enclosures, sometimes in the form of printed collect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1911-Jun 1920
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1466
Title:
Coll 1/30 'Aden Protectorate: extension of the limit of the Red Sea Patrol to include the Gulf of Aden, Socotra and British Somaliland'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding a suggestion by the Aden Political Resident (Bernard Reilly) that the limits of the Red Sea Patrol be extended to include the whole of the Gulf of Aden. The file includes correspondence received from the Board of the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1933-13 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3928
Title:
Coll 30/191 ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of the Persian Gulf. Establishment of aircraft facilities at Socotra and Salalah (Muscat) and Assembly Port at Masira Bay.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (482 folios)