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1. IOR/L/PS/12/4493

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4493
Title:
Coll 44/17 'War. Detention of enemy civil aircraft'
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the procedure for the detention of enemy aircraft in the Arab Gulf States in the event of the declaration of war. Correspondents include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; and the Secretary of State for India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-4 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/4500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4500
Title:
Coll 44/21 (2) ‘War Middle East Intelligence Centre Tour of Head of Intelligence Centre in Iraq, Iran & Persian Gulf. (Arrangements for P. I. A. W.)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India regarding the ‘Defence Regulations made under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council 1939’. The regulations apply in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Muscat and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1939-4 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/4506

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4506
Title:
Coll 44/27 'Persia: Attitude towards European Situation, 1939'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence on Persian [Iranian] attitudes towards the war in Europe [Second World War] from 8 July 1939 to 20 February 1942. The correspondence is primarily comprised of exchanges between HM Minister in Tehran and the Foreign Office, and includes material relating to the fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1939-20 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/4498

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4498
Title:
Coll 44/20 ‘WAR. Persian Gulf. Offers of Assistance to H.M.G. from Arab States and Trucial Sheikhdoms’
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to the funding, the naming ceremonies and public relations of the aircraft of the Royal Air Force No. 126 (Persian Gulf) Squadron, which came to a total of ten Spitfire aeroplanes. The aircraft were paid for by the Persian Gulf fighter fund (see f 356), a fund set up by the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1939-3 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (462 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4486

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4486
Title:
Coll 44/6(S) 'War. Defence, Protective and other measures. Iraq:- Military co-operation between U.K. and Iraq in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the military co-operation between Britain and Iraq during the Second World War including:A query (ff 207-208) from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to the extent of aid that they could expect from Britain in event of the outbreak of war with ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 March 1938-10 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (208 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/4488

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4488
Title:
Coll 44/9(S) ‘War. Defence, Protective and other measures. Persian Gulf: Maintenance of spare parts at Bahrein by oil companies operating in the Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to preparations for war. It discusses a proposal made by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) to keep in Bahrain (also written here as Bahrein) a large stock of spare parts in connection with the working of oilf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1939-29 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4507
Title:
Coll 44/28 ‘Saudi Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud towards the European War, 1939.’
Scope & Content:
The papers relate mainly to a discussion held in July 1940 by the War Cabinet Official Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East on the neutrality of Saudi Arabia under Ibn Saud [Ibn Sa‘ūd, or ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] during the Second World War. The main iss...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1940-6 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4505
Title:
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-18 Jan 1944
Extent:

1 file (88 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4492

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4492
Title:
Coll 44/16 ‘Persian Gulf. Introduction of an export licensing system. Regulation made under Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939).’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the introduction of an export licensing system for Arab countries in the Persian Gulf during the Second World War. The papers notably cover the following: The Bahrain (also written in the file as Bahrein) Petroleum Compa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1941-29 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4498, f 85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4498, f 85
Title:
Photograph Taken on the Occasion of the Persian Gulf Spitfires Ceremony
Scope & Content:
This photograph was taken on the occasion of the Persian Gulf Spitfires naming ceremony, which took place on 11 December 1944 at RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex. The ceremony was attended by Lady Honor Cowell Fowle (widow of Sir Trenchard Craven Fowle). Pictured in the photograph are several RAF officer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 photograph