‘File 28/1 E Defence Officer, Persian Gulf. Station Commander Bahrain’
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The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the recruitment, particulars and activities of a Defence Officer for the Persian Gulf. Key correspondents in the file include the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban) and t...
‘File 28/1 I Defence against parachutists, obstruction of aerodromes and landing grounds, etc’
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The file comprises copies of correspondence and memoranda containing guidance relating to the perceived threat of enemy troops parachuting into British-Indian territory. Though the threat is most strongly perceived in the north-western provinces of India and Baluchistan, the guidance was distrib...
‘File 28/5 VI Licenses for export of oil from Bahrain.’
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The file comprises requests made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for licences to export petroleum products from Bahrain, sent by the Chief Local Representative for Bahrain (J O Fifer during 1945; R M Brown during 1946) to the Political Agency. Each of the export licence requests, which...
‘File 28/10-(d) Tirath Das (Agent of Messrs. Dhamanmal Issardas in Dubai)’
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The file comprises correspondence and memoranda relating to allegations of anti-British sentiments expressed by Tiradas Dhamanmal, manager of Indian trading agents Dhamanmal Isardas of Dubai, and the Political Agent at Bahrain’s orders to have Dhamanmal expelled from the Trucial Coast and sent b...
‘File 28/16 I Defence measures in the Gulf – Bahrain’
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The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to plans for the defence of Bahrain and the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf in general, in the event of a global war. Much of the correspondence deals specifically with the defence of the Bahrain Petroleum Company’s (BAPCO) refinery and ...
‘File 28/57-V Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942 (Working of)’
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The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the rescission of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, made under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939), which prohibited employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) f...
File 29/32 CIGARETTES FOR BAHRAIN & TRUCIAL COAST from INDIA
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The file contains correspondence regarding tobacco quotas imported from India, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America to Bahrain, Kuwait, Trucial Coast, Muscat, and Gwadur [Gwadar]. The correspondence is mainly about fixing quota distributions between manufacturers. It also discusse...
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP BRITISH TANKERS IN THE SUEZ CANAL
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Correspondence discusses the possibility of an attempt to blow up British tankers in the Suez Canal by means of bringing up a small boat alongside. The Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf communicated this to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent, Bahrain, and R M Brown, C...
File 1/17 Revision Scheme for Clerical Cadre of the Persian Gulf Residency
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The file relates to the administration of a scheme to improve the quality of the Clerical (later Ministerial) Establishment in the Persian Gulf Residency generally, and specifically in Bahrain. The file opens with a report by Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth, Political Resident ...
FILE NO. 3/6 I cf. 1929. PURCHASE, UPKEEP, AND REPAIRS TO LAUNCHES.
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Correspondence concerning the purchase, upkeep and repair to the Bahrain Agency steam launches John Lambert and Felix Jones. The John Lambert was made in 1918 by the Royal Indian Marine Dockyard at Calcutta and had a thorough overhaul in May 1930. A large part of the correspondence is requests ...
