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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Air travel

1. IOR/R/15/2/724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/724
Title:
‘File 28/32 I Recruitment in Persian Gulf states’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to investigations into the prospect of recruiting large numbers of labourers from the Persian Gulf, for non-combatant military work in Basra, and later on, civilian (oil refinery) labour at Abadan. The principal correspondents ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1942-28 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/591
Title:
‘Visit of Her Excellency Lady Willingdon’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns visits made by Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon (referred to as Lady Willingdon), wife of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to Bahrain and Sharjah on stopovers in June 1933. The file contains correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 May 1933-12 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/590
Title:
‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1933-7 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/757
Title:
‘File 28/66 U.S.A.T.C. [United States Army Transport Corps] at Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to: 1) construction work at RAF Sharjah to accommodate troops and equipment of the United States Army Transport Corps (USATC); 2) questions over the policing of US troops at Sharjah, raised prior to and after an incident of alleged attempted a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1942-13 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)