The file contains a letter sent by Cara C Daubeny asking about her son, R G Daubeny, and the response from the Government of India, External Department, informing her of his arrival at the Kabul Legation.
Ext 3265/42 Egypt: position of Allied armed forces, question of removal or repatriation after the war
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The file contains correspondence from the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, the Comite National Francais in London, the Ministère des Affaires étrangères de Belgique, the British Embassy in Belgium, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherland Forei...
The file contains a letter from the British Consulate in Khorramshar, transmitted to the India Office by the British Legation at Tehran, on the subject of the SS Suisang, a British India Steam Navigation Company's ship which caught fire at Abadan whilst loading aviation petrol, and was sunk. The ...
Ext 3508/42 'Report by Mr Bowlby, Petroleum Department representative, on his visit to Abadan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Basra'
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The file contains a report by Hugo Salvin Bowlby, Petroleum Department representative in Baghdad, on his visit to Abadan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Basra, forwarded by Petroleum Department to the India Office. The report describes visits to oil fields in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, in June 1942.
Ext 3756/42 'Appointment of technician for cotton spinning plant at Bandar Abbas'
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams from the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, the Committee for Overseas Manpower, and S Dodd & Sons Ltd, regarding the appointment of a technician for a cotton spinning plant at Bandar Abbas, and the pur...
Ext 4041/42 Establishment of an MI6 W/T station at Zahidan
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The file contains telegrams between the British Legation at Tehran and the Foreign Office regarding the establishment of a Wireless Telegraphy (WT) Station at Zahidan [Zahedan, Iran], and plans to send a clerk and a Vice-Consul.
Ext 4075/42 Movements of Mr W Taylor wishing to return from Bahrain to UK
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The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, and the Secretary of State for India, regarding Wilfred Taylor, a BAPCO employee wishing to return to the UK from Bahrain with his wife and son. The file also contains two letters from Taylo...
Ext 4086/42 Activities of British subjects in Iraq
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The file contains a letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad to the Government of India, reporting the expulsion of three British subjects from Iraq. They were sent to India after 'a disgraceful event in a Bagdad cabaret'.
The file contains correspondence between the Foreign Office and the British Embassy at Kuibyshev [Samara, Russia], regarding Sultan Beg Husseinzadeh, a political subversive active between Persian Azerbaijan and Afghanistan, who is to be handed over to Soviet authorities.
Ext 4479/42 Appointment of Sir Arthur Parsons as British representative on Anglo-American-Persian Transport Board; expenses, etc
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams from the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, and the British Legation in Tehran, regarding the appointment of Sir Arthur Parsons as British representative on the Anglo-American-Persian Road ...