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251. IOR/R/15/5/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/227
Title:
File 4/40 Employment of British Staff for Kuwait Government Hospital
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the hiring of British doctors and other medical workers in Kuwait following the departure of an official named Dr Akopiantz who had previously been working in the country. The correspondence discusses the role of H T Kemp (th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1949-27 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

252. IOR/R/15/5/233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/233
Title:
File C 4/46 Constitution of the Shara' Court at Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a single letter that was sent from Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Gordon Noel Jackson, the Political Agent in Kuwait in which Hay requests details of three Egyptian qadis (religious judges) recently hired in Kuwait and th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

253. IOR/R/15/5/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/52
Title:
File XVI/4. Establishment of a Quarantine Station at Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and the Political Residency in Bushire related to the establishment of a quarantine station at Kuwait after an outbreak of plague in Bahrain. In particular, the file contains correspondence on some disagreements with the rul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1907-25 Apr 1912
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

254. IOR/R/15/5/55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/55
Title:
File XX/4 Naval and Military Intelligence Queries.
Scope & Content:
The file contains information provided by the Political Agent, Kuwait in response to military and naval intelligence queries from the Government of India; Army Headquarters India; the Intelligence Officer, Bushire; the Commander in Chief, East Indies Squadron, and other military and naval offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1906-10 Feb 1916
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

255. IOR/R/15/5/164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/164
Title:
File 2/11 Formation of an Iraqi river fleet
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the India Office and the British Embassy in Basra on the formation of a small river fleet in Iraq to protect the Shatt al-Arab waterway during the Second World War. The papers cover the size and armament of the fleet of six boats, the projected cost of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1936-20 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

256. IOR/R/15/5/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/169
Title:
File 2/16 Alleged persecution of Iraqi Jews
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from the foreign office to the Political Residency in Bahrain regarding the persecution of Jews following the declaration of the State of Israel's independence the preceding year.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

257. IOR/R/15/5/274

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/274
Title:
File 6/1 II Aviation - Imperial Airways
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the Imperial Airways air route through the Persian Gulf. Most of the papers relate to discussions on constructing an aerodrome in Kuwait to provide shelter for planes during storms. Other papers discuss the provision of shelter and safe storage for car...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1934-7 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

258. IOR/R/15/5/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/305
Title:
‘File 7/7 Admission of Suits against the Ruling Chiefs’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of correspondence between the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The subject matter is a dispute between Dr Akopiantz and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the former is clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1949-23 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

259. IOR/R/15/5/306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/306
Title:
‘File C 7/8 Serving of Writs on Americans’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request sent to the Political Agency by Clifton P English, United States Consul at Basra, asking the Political Agent to serve a writ against Thomas Wallace, an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. It also contains the Agent's (Herbert George Jakins) reply.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1949-21 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

260. IOR/R/15/5/312

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/312
Title:
File 10/1 A DOCUMENTS DESTROYED
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of a list of intelligence summaries and diaries which, according to the file, were 'destroyed by fire in February 1941.' The file lists over thirty intelligence summaries, diaries and reports, ranging in date from 1928 to 1939, which appear to have been destroyed at the K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1941-19 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)