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IOR/L/PS/12/788
- Record Id:
- 040-000555793
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000554997
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000517.0x00031f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100044115020.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/788
- Title:
- Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
- Scope & Content:
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The file is concerned with the supply of dates to the Persian Gulf States – Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial Coast – via a co-ordinated purchasing scheme in Iraq operated by the Ministry of Food through their agents Andrew Weir and Company.
The main correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior), officials of the India Office, officials of the Middle Eastern Supply Centre, officials of the Ministry of Food, officials of the Ministry for War Transport, and occasionally representatives of the Government of India.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000554997
040-000555793 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/1-1442 : Political (External) Department, Annual Files
IOR/L/PS/12/788 : Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0001]/037-000554997[0796]/040-000555793
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (111 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000517.0x00031f
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1943
- End Date:
- 1945
- Date Range:
- 6 Mar 1943-5 May 1945
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 113; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- Ext 329/43/2
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The subject Ext 329/43 (Supply of Food to the Persian Gulf) consists of three files: IOR/L/PS/12/786-788.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)