IOR/L/PS/12/3933

The file contains papers, mainly correspondence, relating to the defence of Kuwait (also spelled Koweit and Kuweit in the file).

It includes correspondence regarding the following: the preparation of a scheme for the defence of Kuwait by the Air Officer Commanding, Iraq; an exercise carried out by Royal Air Force armoured cars and two aircraft from Number 84 squadron in co-operation with the Shaikh of Kuwait’s [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ’s] armed cars in October 1938; the question raised by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf of whether the War Office, the Air Ministry, the Admiralty, and the General Staff, India, had all the information about Kuwait they needed for a possible combined operation in case a force was required to be sent there; the proposed substitution of the Iraqi Post and Telegraph Office by a British Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait managed by Cable and Wireless Limited; and the supply of parts required for the Shaikh of Kuwait’s machine guns free of charge by HM Government.

The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Kuwait; and the Air Ministry.

The file includes a folio of handwritten notes in pencil on the file which is undated, but from a later date (folio 3).

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.