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21. IOR/R/15/2/290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/290
Title:
‘File 7/28 Payment of toll gate fees by R.A.F.’
Scope & Content:
The contents of the file relate to a proposal (folio 1B) made by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield) to the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) that a monthly fee be paid by the RAF to allow their vehicles to cross the Manama-Muharraq causeway, in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1942-13 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/2/293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/293
Title:
‘File 7/33 Demonstration flights over Trucial Coast by R.A.F. bombers from Air Head Quarters Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file’s correspondence and other papers concern a demonstration by Royal Air Force [RAF] aircraft, which took place over the Trucial Coast (including Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah) in June 1949. The correspondents in the file include the Political Resident at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 May 1949-16 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/2/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/272
Title:
‘File 7/5 A Customs duties on R.A.F. stores’
Scope & Content:
The file’s correspondence concerns an agreement to exempt customs duty on imports (particularly of oil and petrol) to the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Muharraq in Bahrain. The key correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, from October 1937 to October 1940, M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1938-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/2/280

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/280
Title:
‘File 7/14 I R.A.F. wards in Bahrain Govt. hospital’
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the file relates to a request for new arrangements in the allocation of wards at the Bahrain Government Hospital. In March 1945 Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, formally made a request to the Political Agent at Bahrain that the one or both of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1945-8 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/2/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/277
Title:
‘File 7/12 Protection of aerodromes by levies’
Scope & Content:
The volume’s contents concern the establishment of companies of levy corps to protect Royal Air Force (RAF) bases in the Gulf. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield until October 1943, Major Tom Hickinbotham from October 1943 to March 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1942-23 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/2/292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/292
Title:
‘File 7/32 Use of Muharraq aerodrome and other RAF aerodromes by U.S.A.A.F. [United States Army Air Forces]’
Scope & Content:
The papers in the file concern the British Government’s decision to permit United States military aircraft use of British military airfields around the world. Correspondence exchanged principally between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay), the Bahrain Political Agent (...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1948-21 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

27. IOR/R/15/2/264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/264
Title:
‘File 7/2 II Landing grounds and seaplane anchorages’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a continuation of correspondence from ‘File 7/2 I Landing grounds and seaplane anchorages’ (IOR/R/15/2/263), its contents relating to ongoing negotiations between Arab rulers and the British Government and Royal Air Force on the installation and maintenance of air facilities along ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1934-19 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/2/269

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/269
Title:
‘File 7/3 Scope and functions of F/Lt. Finch at Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the file relates to the appointment of Flight Lieutenant Finch of the Royal Air Force to Sharjah, to assist in the construction of the rest house at the Sharjah aerodrome. Fluent in Arabic, Finch was warned by the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle) no...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1932-13 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/2/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/271
Title:
‘File 7/5 Proposal to base R.A.F. squadron in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and blueprint plans, related to the acquisition of land at Muharraq for the establishment of a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Bahrain. The plan to establish an RAF squadron at Bahrain was precipitated by the relocation of Squadron 203 from Basra to Aden, with Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1935-29 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (109 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/2/287

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/287
Title:
‘File 7/24 Lease of R.A.F. land to A.I.O.C. [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company]’
Scope & Content:
The papers in the file relate to a request made by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company [AIOC] to lease land belonging to the Air Ministry at Qadhibia [Qudaibiya], on the outskirts of Manama. A decision on the lease was deferred by the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Gallo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1946-1 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)