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'File 9/50 (B 16) The Debai Incident' [18r] (42/492)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 25 Dec 1910-7 Aug 1912. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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REPORT OF THE}' LANDING AT DEEAI OF' THE ROYAL MARINE
DETACHMMT AND DETAILS UNDER IIAJOR HERIOT R.M.L 0 I.
DECEMBER 24TH, 1910 0
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On the evening of Friday Dec. 23rd, orders were given to
i prepare a landing party of 2 Naval Officers and 32 seamen
and 2 Officers R.M. and 32 Ptes R.M.,rank and file.
The parties paraded at 5 a.m. and left at 5.30 a.m. with
100 rounds per man, 2 maxims & ammunition.
The party landed in the 1st & 2nd cutters and the gig, in
tow of the steamhoat.
Party landed at 6 a.m. (Just before dawn) and boats were
made last astern of the sailing pinna.ce (which had anchored
over night in the creek.)
Lieut. Noakes - who was in command of the pinnace - joined
the party with 6 men on landing.
The Captain with the whole landing party proceeded to Thane
bin Thalyfa's house (marked "A" in sketch 1.)
He gave me orders to surround the house and allow no one in
or out.
The house was then searched, and one corpl. & 6 Marines were
sent back to the boats to fetch picks & shovels.
When these arrived the floor of a suspicious feense was dug
up,! and three old rifles were found (they were of an obsolete
pattern & would have been dangerous to fire.)
About 7.30 the Captain withdrew the party of seamen, leaving
me in charge of the R. Marines, and he informed me that he
was: going to Ahmed's House (marked B on sketch.)
8.15 a.m . I heard several shots in a S.W. direction:
heading these I ordered my working party to get their gear ono
Meajnwhile Cpl.Callaran - who had taken up duties as signaller
ori'the roof (the Chief Yeoman having left to join the Captain)
- reported 8 or 9 Arabs running down a., street between us & the
beach in a. S.W. direction, armed with rifles.
I closed the Detachment and formed the order of march with
room
the intention ~
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This file contains reports and correspondence relating to an attack on British soldiers by Arab inhabitants of Dubai. The reports and correspondence are mainly between Lieutenant-Colonel P.Z. Cox ( Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and His British Majesty's Consul General), The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and Sheikh Butti-bin-Soheil (Chief of Dubai) and discuss the reparation terms demanded by the British.
The file includes a naval report of the landing at Dubai by armed British soldiers and seamen led by Major Heriot of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, dated 25 December 1910, together with two pencil sketch maps of Dubai drawn from memory, showing buildings, the shore line, military positions and direction of fire during the attack, dated 26 December 1910 (folios 18-25).
The file also includes several letters in Arabic, mainly from Sheikh Butti of Dubai to Colonel Cox, together with English translations. Among them is a witness statement containing an account of the incident, together with the signatures and seals of 83 principal residents of Dubai attesting to its veracity, dated 5 January 1911 (folio 60).
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- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There is a rough handwritten subject index on the inside of the front cover.
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There are two different foliation sequences in the file.
Original foliation sequence: every folio in the file, except two folios at the start and end of the file, have been numbered sequentially in the top right hand corner, starting at the front of the file. Folios 1 to 115 are numbered in pencil, folios 116 to 197 in red crayon and folios 198 to 241 in blue crayon.
Second foliation sequence: every folio in the file has been numbered sequentially in pencil, in the top right hand corner, starting at the front of the file.
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- 'File 9/50 (B 16) The Debai Incident'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:12v, 13v:34v, 36r:38v, 38av, 38bv, 39r:53v, 54v:66v, 68r:73r, 74v:83v, 84v:93v, 95v:107v, 108v:139v, 140v:164v, 166v:170v, 171v, 172v:178v, 179v:182v, 183v, 184v:194v, 196r:216v, 218r:238v, i-r:i-v, back-i
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