IOR/L/PS/12/3782

This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to the purchase of land in Bahrain for the use of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force as a potential replacement for Britain's naval base on Henjam [Hengam] Island in Iran.

Copies of the minutes from several meetings of the Committee of Imperial Defence's 'Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East' that took place throughout 1933 are also included in the file.

In addition, the file contains several maps of Bahrain (on folios 119-122, 231-232, 348, 413 and 421) and the following:

• 'Fishtrap at Bahrain' a simple illustration (folio 35)
• 'Notes of meeting with Mr C. Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Shaikh of Bahrain, 23rd July 1934' (folios 101-105)
• Government of Bahrain document confirming sale of land to the British Government (folios 157-158)
• 'Anglo Persian Relations. Naval Station in the Persian Gulf. Memorandum by the First Lord of the Admiralty', 1933 (folios 223-228)
• 'Notes of Meeting called to consider the question of purchase of lease of land at Bahrein on 6th November 1933' (folios 245-254)
• 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Persian Gulf Sub-Committee. The Persian Gulf. Report by Chiefs of Staff' 1928 (folios 367-371)
• 'Oil Concession signed by the Shaikh of Bahrein in favour of the Eastern and General Syndicate on the 2nd December 1925' (folios 416-419)
• 'Memorandum by Admiralty and Foreign Office, dated 23rd February, 1932 on the subject of the British Naval Depot at Henjam' (folios 447-458).