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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Postal services

1. IOR/R/15/2/709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/709
Title:
‘File 28/18 Sabotage smuggling etc of mail’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and notes relating to the possible sabotage and smuggling of mail: a telegram from the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG), dated 18 November 1940, reporting a suspected case of sabotage in which a leaking jar of acid was found in a mail bag (f 2); a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1940-22 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/R/15/2/478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/478
Title:
11/18 EXCHANGE OF MAILS BETWEEN HASA & BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the exchange of postal services between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and covers: 1932-1933 (ff 2-30): the conveyance of post between Hasa [al-Aḥsā’] and Bahrain, as well as between Hasa and other foreign countries via Bahrain; 1934 (ff 31-43): Saudi Posts, Telegraph and Telephone ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1932-30 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/564
Title:
File No. 17/14 USE OF UNITED STATES ARMY POST OFFICE FACILITIES FOR BAPCO & ARAMCO.
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the use by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) of the United States Army Post Office in Bahrain to send mail and parcels to the United States and Canada. The correspondence discusses permission the existi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1944-3 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)