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'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters' [192r] (394/506)
The record is made up of 1 volume (248 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1926-24 Dec 1931. 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.
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Confidential# Thfe/
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrain.
Ho. 230 C. 20th December 1930.
From
Captain C.G.Prior I.A.
Political /gent, Bahrain.
To
The Hon'ble Lt.-Col.H.V.Biscoe I.A.
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.
,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Sir,
I hare the honour to say that I visited Yas by
air on the I7th December and returned to Bahrain on the I8th
December, calling at Pohah on the outward journey.
2. On arrival at Bohah I heard confidentially that
the leading man of Dalmah had been instructed by the Shaikh
of Abu Dhabi to proceed to Yas and see what was being done
there and stop any work that was being done there. On arri
val at Yas I heard that he had been there, but that he had
done nothing and gone over to the mainland to hunt. I did,
however, find a representative from the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi,
who had come there direct by jollyboat, and he presented me
with a letter from the Shaikh which read as folibows:-
* I have heard from the people of Yas that your men have
come to the said Island, stnd have settled down there and built
tents without our sanction, and we have not been referred to
about it. This is not what we expected of your justice.
Ishallah you will turn your men away from our island when it
becomes known to you *
3. I told his messenger that the Shaikh was
fully informed about the undertaking last month, and saic thatt
the work was sanctioned hy you and could not he discontinued.
He requested that either you or I should go to Abu Dhabi and
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bushire, Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat; officials in the 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. and the Government of India; the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; officials of the Air Ministry, London; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the Bahrain Government; RAF (Royal Air Force) officials at the Iraq Command; the High Commissioner of Iraq at Baghdad; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and members of No. 203 Squadron RAF.
The correspondence concerns the establishment of an air route along the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; seaplane reconnaisance missions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. carried out by No. 203 Squadron RAF; the construction of landing grounds, seaplane anchorages and refuelling stations at various locations along the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including Kuwait, al-Ḥasā’, Bahrain, Qatar, Ṣīr Banī Yās, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwayn, Ra's al-Khaymah, Muscat and Maṣīrah island.
Also included within these papers are:
- Sketch map of northern Bahrain depicting Manamah and Sitrah Island (f. 85);
- Notes by the Air Staff on the Regulations of Air Control in Undeveloped Countries, dated 21 November 1928 (f. 65);
- Plan Showing Landing Ground in Bahrein (f. 108B);
- Details of Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond's 1929 air journey to India;
- Details of Under-Secretary of State for Air Sir Philip Sassoon's 1931-32 air journey to India.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (248 folios)
- Arrangement
This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled and can be found in the top right of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Title
- 'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:22v, 22ar:22av, 23r:76v, 78v:84v, 86r:107v, 108ar:108av, 109r:118v, 121v:122v, 124v:163v, 163ar:163av, 164r:198v, 198ar:198av, 199r:246v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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