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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Military ceremonies, honours, and salutes Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/L/PS/5/386, ff 97-152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/386, ff 97-152
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 61 of 1840, dated 28 August 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-10 and are dated 10-24 August 1840. They consist of correspondence relating to P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Aug 1840
Extent:
1 item (56 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1451

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1451
Title:
Coll 1/13 'Resident and Chief Commissioner: Salutes and Table of Precedence'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor), the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, the Admiralty, and the India Office Political Department, regarding: the position of the Resident (and later Governor) of Aden in the T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1932-23 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1963
Title:
Coll 5/17 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Landing grounds at Kalba, Shinas, and Dibah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, and related India Office notes, regarding the establishment of an emergency landing ground and facilities at Kalba for the use of Imperial Airways (later the British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC). This includes material related to negotiations between Tom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1932-11 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2113
Title:
Coll 6/46 'Salutes in Hejaz Nejd.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns personal salutes given by British naval ships to dignitaries in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence, largely between officials of the Admiralty and the Foreign Office, begins with discussion about the number of gun salutes that should be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1928-5 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3815

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3815
Title:
Coll 30/95 'Persian regulations governing visits of foreign warships to Persian ports.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns regulations issued by the Government of Iran (generally referred to in the papers as Persia) governing the passage of foreign warships through Iranian territorial waters, and visits by foreign warships to Iranian ports. The papers include reports from HM Minister, Tehran; the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Jul 1934-1 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file, in two parts (232 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/183
Title:
File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence. Specifically, the majorit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/225
Title:
File 4/38 Supply of Saluting Gun for the Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the desire of the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, to purchase a three-pounder saluting gun [cannon] to affix to his recently-built motor dhow in 1932 (folios 2-41). Subsequently, the correspondence in the file...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1931-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/133
Title:
File 4/6 Formal calls between Commanders of H.M. Ships, Sheikhs of Bahrein, Kuwait, Qatar and Trucial Coast.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns all aspects of ceremonial at the Political Agency, Muscat, particularly in terms of relations between British officials and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The papers include: Government of India regulations concerning the cost of firing salutes, 1938; rules governing ceremonia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1938-20 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/306
Title:
File 9/4 Naval & Shipping: Salutes to Arab Rulers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the question of appropriate gun salutes for deputies appointed during a ruling Shaikh's absence. The question is applied to Abu Dhabi, Aden, Ajman, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Muscat, Qatar, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaiwain. The correspondence co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1936-7 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/307
Title:
File 9/4 II Salutes to Arab Rulers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, and the Political Agency, Muscat. The correspondence includes: a list of the rulers of Persian Gulf states with details of their titles and salutes; notification that Shaikh Abdulla bin Salim al Subah [‘Abdullāh bin Sāli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1949-23 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)