File 14/2 II Arrival and departure of steamers, planes, launches etc; lists of passengers
Scope & Content:
The file contains documents sent by the Passport Officer of the Passport Department at Bahrain to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and in copy to the Political Agent at Bahrain. These include lists of passengers landed at Bahrain by sea and air, and some details on arrival and departure ...
File 14/2 III Arrival and departure of steamers, planes, launches, etc; lists of passengers
Scope & Content:
The file contains documents sent by the Passport Officer of the Passport Department at Bahrain to the Political Agent at Bahrain. These include lists of passengers landed at Bahrain by sea and air, and some details on arrival and departure of steamers and planes.
‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:
Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Hugh Weightman); the Controller (or Deputy Control...
File 16/57 I Routine correspondence with British agencies and consulates other than Bushire
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, and other British offices in the Persian Gulf, including those at Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The routine correspondence covers: the ordering, exchange and de...
‘File 16/57 II Routine correspondence with Agencies and Consulates other than Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, and other British offices in the Persian Gulf, including those at Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 16/57 I R...
‘File 20/B HANDING OVER OF P. A. Advice to Shaikhs etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and memorandum regarding the appointment of Cornelius James Pelly as Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in Bushire, and his departure from Bahrain. The correspondence is also about the appointment of Arnold Crawshaw Galloway as the new Political Age...
Flags Flown by the Sheikh of Qatar. (Bahrain and Trucial Coast)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British officials in Bahrain, Bushire, Baghdad, the India Office and the Government of India, as well as with Khalīl bin Ibrāhīm Kanoo [Kānū]. These papers concern various enquiries made by the British Admiralty between 1929 and 1938 regarding flags...
‘Foreign Office budget for the year 1949-50 and six monthly expenditure etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to the accounts (actual expenditure and estimated budget) of the Political Agencies at Bahrain and Sharjah: a copy of a circular written by Ernest Bevin, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 18 July 1946, requesting returns from overseas agencies ...
'File B/10 IV CLAIMS OF MESSRS KUCHBAND DAMODARDAS OF KARACHI AGAINST THE SUBJECTS OF THE SHAIKH OF SHARJAH’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim in 1937 made by Messrs Khubchand (also spelt Kuchband) Damodardas, merchants of Karachi, against two subjects of Umm ul-Qaiwain [Umm Al Qaiwain] and Dubai respectively. The correspondence consists of the following four items: a p...
‘File B/10-8 CLAIM OF Rs.2000/- of Ali bin Ibrahim bin ‘Isa al Hyderabadi against a Dubai subject. AHMAD AL DALIL'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim in 1938 made by Ali bin Ibrahim bin Isa al Hyderabadi of Sharjah for money owed to him by Ahmad al Dalil of Dubai, a broker, to whom he had entrusted the sale of pearl dust at the end of the diving season. Most items of correspond...
