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IOR/R/15/1/430
- Record Id:
- 040-000227881
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000227427
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000193
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023515481.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/1/430
- Title:
- Muscat Levy Corps
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence discusses the Muscat Levy Corp: its organisation, composition, strength, budget and activities.
Letters discuss the reduction in the pay of the Muscat Levy; the rates of pay of the different ranks in the force; composition, non-military personnel employed with the Muscat Levy Corps; procurement of armaments and arrangements for export licenses; Combined exercises between the Muscat Levies and H.M.S. Fowey in 1937.
Correspondents include: Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident Persian Gulf; Major Ralph Ponsonby Watts, Political Agent, Muscat; Reginald George Alban, Commandant Muscat Infantry; Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr], Sultan of Muscat and Oman.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000227427
037-000227638
038-000227841
040-000227881 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/1 : Political Residency, Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/199-703 : Political Residency, Bushire: subject files
IOR/R/15/1/391-467 : File 35: Muscat
IOR/R/15/1/430 : Muscat Levy Corps - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0001]/036-000227427[0003]/037-000227638[0011]/038-000227841[0040]/040-000227881
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (191 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000193
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1931
- End Date:
- 1937
- Date Range:
- 10 Jun 1931-25 Apr 1937
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Foliation: There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete sequence which should be used for referencing, is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the title page with 1A and ends on the inside of the back cover on 191.
Foliation errors: ff 1A-C, ff 41A-B
- Former External References:
- A Series: 35/105 IV
Confidential Series: A 71 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)