'Signalling and Heliograph Posts between CHAHBAR AND GEH.'
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. and shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating short and long distance signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar [Chahabar] and Geh [Nīkshahr] and points further north. Also shows roads and hydrology. The map bea...
Coll 5/67 ‘Crashes of British aircraft in neutral countries during the war’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small number of papers related to the crashes of Royal Air Force (RAF) machines in neutral countries; the file focuses on neutral countries of interest to the India Office. The vast majority of the papers focus on a single incident in September 1939: the crash landing of an R...
Coll 30/200 ‘Persian Gulf. Tour of Political Resident from Bahrein to Muscat in L. T. Nearchus.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to: a tour of Muscat by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Consul-General, Bushire, in February 1940; his journey from Muscat to Bahrein [Bahrain] in the ship LT [Lighthouse Tender] Ne...