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Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968 Place Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/12/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/128
Title:
PZ 704/1935 Arabia: Request for Financial Assistance for the ex-Amir of Mecca
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, and enclosed copies of Foreign Office correspondence, relating to the former Amir [Emir] of Mecca, Sherif Ali Haider. It includes a letter from Kenneth Johnstone, Foreign Office, to John Gilbert Laithwa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1935-25 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/245
Title:
PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mainly relating to the private visit of Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his three private conversations with King Ibn Saud. It includes correspondence between John Charles Walton, India Office, and Dickson...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1937-26 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/752

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/752
Title:
Ext 4986/42 Destitute Yemenis and Hadhramis entering Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from the British Ministry at Jedda to the Foreign Office, informing them that Ibn Saud had asked for assistance in preventing destitute Yemenis and Hadramis from entering Saudi Arabia, requesting that only subjects with means of subsistence be admitted.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1942-16 Sep 1942
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1947

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1947
Title:
Coll 5/1 ‘Persian Gulf Air Routes: Hasa Coast & Flying over Nejd territory — Saudi regulations for the landing of foreign aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers related to negotiations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia for the establishment of emergency landing grounds along the Hasa Coast, and proposed arrangements for their maintenance. The intention was that these facilities ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1931-3 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (281 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1950
Title:
Coll 5/5 ‘Arabia: Hejaz Air Force; Recruitment of personnel by HMG; Instruction of Hejazi pilots’
Scope & Content:
The file covers the subject of the development of aviation in Hejaz (Saudi Arabia from 1932), and requests made to the British Government for assistance in the development of an air force. The earliest papers (1931) deal with a crisis in the Hejaz Air Force, in which the Hejaz Government desire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1931-14 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (350 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1969

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1969
Title:
Coll 5/23 ‘Alleged violation of the Saudi Arabian frontier by British aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to incidents involving British aircraft in, or in the vicinity of, Saudi Arabia – Hejaz and Nejd prior to 1932; the incidents predominantly take the form of forced landings by aircraft of either the Royal Air Force (RAF) or of Imperial Airways. The corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1930-29 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 file (276 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2052

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2052
Title:
Coll 5/85 ‘Airfield at Dharan for U.S.A.A.F.: Proposal to construct new airport at Bahrain (Hamala)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with proposals for the construction of an airfield – suitable for very heavy bombers – at Dhahran by the United States Army Air Transport Command as a wartime necessity, and applications from the United States to the United Kingdom for the latters support in obtaining permi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1944-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2071
Title:
Coll 6/8(1) 'Printed Series: 1929 to 1938.'
Scope & Content:
This volume compiles printed copies of letters, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper extracts relating to Britain's involvement across the Arabian Peninsula during the period 1929-1938. Whilst the correspondence encompasses all matters concerning British interests in the region, much of it relates...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jan 1929-15 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (527 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2074

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2074
Title:
Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1928-26 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 volume (649 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2077

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2077
Title:
Coll 6/11 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Economic Development in the Hejaz'
Scope & Content:
This file mostly consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1929-12 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)