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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Air force

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1167
Title:
File 351/1926 ‘Arabia: Nejd: Employment of British airmen by Ibn Saud Hejazi Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, mainly Foreign Office despatches received from Jedda, relating to the creation of the Hejaz Air Force by Ibn Saud, with the assistance of the British Government and British air personnel. The main correspondents are the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1926-18 Jul 1931
Extent:

1 volume (700 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1273
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 16 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control Report of the Warren Fisher Committee.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning political control in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The first half of the file relates to the inter-departmental Sub-Committee of Political Control of the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Sub-Committee on Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1929-8 Aug 1939
Extent:

1 file (285 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3508A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3508A
Title:
Coll 28/97A ‘Perisa; Tehran; Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence Summaries’
Scope & Content:
Weekly secret summaries (fortnightly from January 1947) compiled by the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran. The reports cover: the Persian [Iranian] Air Force, including its activities on the ‘Azerbaijan front’ in late 1946, aircraft purchases, the training of pilots, and the Shah’s pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 May 1946-9 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (137 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3508B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3508B
Title:
Coll 28/97A ‘Persia; Tehran. Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence summary.’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly secret summaries (monthly from September 1948) compiled by the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran, Persia [Iran]. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/97A ‘Perisa; Tehran; Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence Summaries’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3508A). The reports co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1948-28 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3928
Title:
Coll 30/191 ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of the Persian Gulf. Establishment of aircraft facilities at Socotra and Salalah (Muscat) and Assembly Port at Masira Bay.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (482 folios)