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1. IOR/R/15/2/334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/334
Title:
File 8/40 British Supply Mission (Middle East) Monthly Letter
Scope & Content:
The file consists of monthly reports of the British Supply Mission (Middle East) from June 1946 to January 1947. Each report, marked secret, opens with an introductory statement consisting of notes on the global food supply situation, including political developments. The reports are then divided...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1946-Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/727

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/727
Title:
‘File 28/34-II War emergency legislation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to, and copies of the various orders, regulations and notices, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council, 1939. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1939-9 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1986

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1986
Title:
‘Statements Showing Stocks of Food Held:– (a) By Bahrain Government. (b) By Trucial Coast. (c) By UKCC Pool at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises tables detailing the volumes (given in tons) of food supplies in Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast. There are five tables at the front of the volume for stores kept by the Bahrain Government, Trucial Coast and UKCC (United Kingdom Commercial Corporation). Foodstuffs are arran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1943-9 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/723

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/723
Title:
‘File 28/32 Food requirements from Pakistan. Civil requirements programme’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the export of foodstuffs from Pakistan to the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf, as part of the Civil Requirements Programme. Principal correspondents in the file include: Political Agency staff at Bahrain; the Director (or Act...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1947-24 Apr 1950
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/731

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/731
Title:
‘File 28/37 Dhow launches &c. for war purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to miscellaneous calls and requests for dhows and other watercraft, to perform various tasks related to wartime measures, including: transport of war equipment; use as floating craft platforms for wireless observation equipment; to assist in importing p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1942-17 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/170
Title:
File 1/A/48 II Food Control
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the implementation in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of the Civil Requirements Programme Middle East. The programme was a Ministry of War Transport initiative to assess the likely civil import needs of the Middle East in view of pressure on available shipping, and the difficul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1941-1 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/171
Title:
File 1/A/48 III FOOD CONTROL.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the effects of the implementation of controls on the import and export of food and other commodities in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast during the Second World War (1939-45). The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1942-8 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (278 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/169
Title:
File 1/A/48 I Control of Prices of standard foodstuffs in Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the control of prices of foodstuffs and other commodities in Bahrain, the suppression of hoarding, and the regulation of imports and exports by the Food Controller, Bahrain, against the background of wartime conditions caused by the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-45). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1939-1 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (281 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/173
Title:
File 1/A/48 A Complaint against the Food Controller by Messrs. Hirjimal Dhamanmal.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns complaints made by Hirjimal Dhamanmal, and other Bahrain merchants, about the Food Controller, Bahrain (Captain Arthur Charles Byard; later Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier), who was responsible for implementing food control policies (e.g. rationing and import controls) in Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Nov 1939-27 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)