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1. IOR/R/15/2/651-765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651-765
Title:
File 28 [Second World] War
Scope & Content:
The Second World War subject files cover a wide range of topics affecting Bahrain in the time leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the Second World War. The files may be broadly arranged under the following categories: oil production at Bahrain, managed by the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1930-1950
Extent:
115 files (13,409 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/742
Title:
‘File 28/48 Head: War. Priority Passages (Air)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and papers relating to requests for priority air passages, chiefly from Bahrain to Cairo, or from Karachi to Bahrain, which were received, processed and authorised through the Political Agency at Bahrain. The largest proportion of the file covers the p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1943-9 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (284 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/677

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/677
Title:
‘File 28/3 A Vetting of civilians in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence related to the vetting of civilians, who reside or resided in Bahrain, and are either employed in or seeking employment outside of Bahrain. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Tom Hickinbotham) and the Security Officer a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1944-16 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/751
Title:
‘File 28/57-IV Industrial conscription’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the status of employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (and to a lesser extent Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) and Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ)), in relation to Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1942-28 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (397 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/665

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/665
Title:
‘File 28/1 L II British personnel recruited as refinery guards’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the recruitment, discipline, and resignation of members of the Bahrain Special Defence Police, who were charged with the security and defence of the Bahrain Petroleum Company’s (BAPCO) refinery and oil fields. The principal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1942-7 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/693

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/693
Title:
‘File 28/10 (b) Bonafides of C.A.S.O.C. [California-Arabian Standard Oil Company] & Bapco [Bahrain Petroleum Company] employees.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to investigations made by the Political Agency in Bahrain, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and British Government departments, into CASOC and BAPCO employees suspected of having ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1940-28 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

7. 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)

8. IOR/R/15/2/676

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/676
Title:
‘File 28/3 War. Security Intelligence Section. Movements and Activities of Enemy Agents.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to intelligence assessments made of a host of individuals whose background, actions, or suspected pro-Axis Power sympathies prompt British officials to pursue further enquiries into them. Principal correspondents in the file include members of the intel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1939-1 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (160 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/672

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/672
Title:
‘File 28/1 S Evacuation of personnel and families of BAPCO and CASOC employees and others’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, notices and lists relating to the numbers of, and plans for the evacuation of, British, British-Indian, American and other (chiefly Goans, described as Portuguese-Indian) subjects, particularly those employed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Califor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1940-11 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662
Title:
‘File 28/1 K II Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and to a lesser extent, those operated by the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1942-30 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (287 folios)