IOR/R/15/2/184

This file contains correspondence between the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the Residency Agent at Sharjah; S H Hurst, British Consul at Basra; W P Anderson, Chief Local Representative, Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) Limited; and the Station Superintendent, British Overseas Airways Corporation, Bahrain. The correspondence concerns leave arrangements and appointments for the post of British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. Details of travel arrangements, passports, visas and Charge Certificates are included within these correspondences.

• ff. 1-7 and 47: leave arrangements for Lieutenant Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, replaced by Lieutenent Colonel Percy Gordon Loch between July 1933 and October 1933, with Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell officiating as Political Agent at Bahrain in place of Loch;
• ff. 8-11: leave arrangements for Fowle, replaced by Loch between July 1934 and October 1934, with Meredith Worth officiating as Political Agent at Bahrain in place of Loch;
• ff. 12-40: the return of Lieutenent Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior to the position of Political Resident after having served as the Representative of India in the Middle East War Council, Cairo, relieving Lieutenent Colonel William Rupert Hay who was officiating, in September 1942;
• ff. 41-44: Charge Certificates Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent at Bahrain, relieving Prior between 19 October and 4 November 1944;
• ff. 45-46: Lieutenent Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway officiating as Political Resident in place of Hay between June and October 1946.