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Coll 5/5 ‘Arabia: Hejaz Air Force; Recruitment of personnel by HMG; Instruction of Hejazi pilots’ [168r] (337/703)
The record is made up of 1 file (350 folios). It was created in 9 Mar 1931-14 Apr 1939. It was written in English. 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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suitable accommodation for the members of the mission,
etc., etc.,
etc. It is recognised that the Hejazi Government would exert
itself to overcome these subsidiary difficulties but Way
require careful consideration beforehand.
(b) The impossibility in present financial conditions and
probably at any future time of obtaining any contribution from
British Government sources towards the cost of the mission*
which would be very heavy relatively to the financial resources
Of 'the Hejazi Government. See paragraph 8 below.
5. The Air Ministry draw attention to more technical
considerations. They also have studied the matter with great
sympathy and express regret that it has taken some little time
to do so owing to other preoccupations e.g., the Disarmament
Conference.
6. The Ministry point out that it is a matter of the firs
importance for the Hejazi Government to decide at the outset the
exact nature of their ultimate oojective. It would be a mere
waste of time and money to employ a mission to train the
pero^nel mentioned by ^’uad Bey without having a clear conceptio:
of the kind of organization in which the personnel were to be
employed and oringing this organization into existence with a
view to the immediate employment of the personnel trained by the
mission.
7. In this connection the Ministry put the question whet
the object would be to build up a fighting unit capable of
uitxnste expansion or merely to create a small unit for communi
cation purposes, using a simple type of aircraft. The organisa
tion would have to be planned at the staict with reference to
the ultimate requirements and any plan adopted would have to
be adhered to and worked out on sound and continuous lines, i:
the/
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The file covers the subject of the development of aviation in Hejaz (Saudi Arabia from 1932), and requests made to the British Government for assistance in the development of an air force.
The earliest papers (1931) deal with a crisis in the Hejaz Air Force, in which the Hejaz Government desired to replace three British subjects — Mr North, Mr Morris, and Mr Lowe — with new British recruits under amended terms and conditions. The file covers some of the consequences resulting from the failure to reach an agreement on this issue.
Much of the rest of the file focuses on various proposals for providing assistance to the Hejaz (later Saudi) Government such as: the provision of a British Air Mission, the appointment of a Muslim Air Adviser (from either Egypt, Iraq, or India), the supply of aircraft and equipment, and various suggestions for training pilots and mechanics at Royal Air Force institutions. These proposals are discussed in terms of their practicality, and their financial and political feasibility.
The file also contains some discussion related to the following: a proposal from Misr Airwork for a demonstration of the Avro 626 to the Hejaz Government; a Turkish military mission in Saudi Arabia; an Italian Air Mission to Saudi Arabia; and a proposal to supply arms and ammunition to Saudi Arabia. It also has extracts from The Times newspaper dated 27 April 1933 (folio 143) and 12 February 1937 (folio 124); The Evening Standard dated 25 November 1931 (folio 207); and an extract from the Umm-al-Qura dated 16 September 1932 (folio 151).
The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Jeddah (Andrew Ryan and Reader William Bullard), HM Chargé d’Affaires at Jeddah (Cecil Gervase Hope-Gill), officials at the Air Ministry, and officials at the Foreign Office. Much of the file consists of correspondence forwarded from the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India, in order to inform 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. officials of developments in Arabia.
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.
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- 1 file (350 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 350; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The file contains the following foliation anomalies: f 1, and f 1A.
An additional foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 5/5 ‘Arabia: Hejaz Air Force; Recruitment of personnel by HMG; Instruction of Hejazi pilots’
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- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:34v, 36r:75v, 77r:123v, 125r:132v, 135r:142v, 144r:152v, 154r:206v, 208r:235v, 239r:256v, 258r:305v, 308r:343v, 345r:350v, back
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