‘File 15/47 Persons debarred from Government service’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between Ronald Giles Daubeny (Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf) and Major Tom Hickinbotham (Political Agent, Bahrain) concerning a memorandum from the Government of India, External Affairs Department that was circulated to all its departmen...
‘File 15/48 Question of prospects of I.M.D. officers in the Persian Gulf consequent on the formation of the I.A.M.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters, dated 14 July 1944 and 20 February 1945, from the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, which were copied to the Political Agent, Bahrain and others, for information. The letters discuss the need to...
The file contains several printed circular letters, memoranda and published notifications by the Government of India. These were forwarded by the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Political Agent, Bahrain and others for information and guidance. Indian Civil...
‘File 15/50 KEY LEAVE Scheme and Passage rules relating to it’
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The file contains Government of India circular letters from the External Affairs Department (later the External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Department), the Home Department and the Finance Department. These circulars contain rules and procedures relating to the Key Leave Scheme, 1944-1947...
The file contains correspondence regarding providing letters of good offices. These were sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Residency Agent in Sharjah, merchants and rulers of the Gulf. The sender would raise a case to the recipient and ask for his help mostly in mediat...
The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
‘File 16/1 Correspondence with the American Mission etc.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency and representatives of the American Mission in Arabia (chiefly the American Mission at Bahrain), as well as some British Government correspondence relating to the American Mission in Arabia. Aside from the Political Agent at Bahrain, the file...
The map is part of a booklet entitled ‘Leper Survey in the Arabian Peninsula’ by Doctor William Harold Storm, published January 1937 and reprinted from Leprosy Review, Vol. VIII, No.1. The map shows an outline of the Arabian Peninsula and indicates: mountainous regions; rivers; annotations for re...
The photograph is part of a booklet entitled ‘Leper Survey in the Arabian Peninsula’ by Dr William Harold Storm, published January 1937 and reprinted from Leprosy Review, Vol. VIII, No.1. It shows a street scene in Jiddah [Jeddah] that includes several men, in local attire, handling waggons carry...
‘The Ian Keith Falconer Mission Hospital, located at Sheikh Othman, Aden’
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The photograph is part of a booklet entitled ‘Leper Survey in the Arabian Peninsula’ by Dr William Harold Storm, published January 1937 and reprinted from Leprosy Review, Vol. VIII, No.1. It shows a white-walled, three-storey hospital building. The hospital was named after Ian Keith-Falconer, a S...
