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Coll 5/5 ‘Arabia: Hejaz Air Force; Recruitment of personnel by HMG; Instruction of Hejazi pilots’ [338r] (677/703)
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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for • we«k on the eh^nc# of Mr.Lowe T&elng discharged t rm I then
hoped ha rai.^it he. I now eaid that in so fey eg my adrio© wee
haeed on e hope of lKr.Lowe*8 hcjlng diemleeed it no longer held
g^od, hut that h© w e not to think that, in saying this I wi e
encouraging him to resign. He imet Judge for hiweelf hut I
should still prefer hi» to hang on# Finally, in order to re
lieve ay own eaharrae«j»<mt t I euggeetod hie putting e straight
question to J? 4 «udhi Bey ns to the QoVdm?ifc nt # e intentions.
?♦ I ondoee e cooy of a letter from Hr*Horris
shewing tlie outooi?is of ell this. After our conversation of
March 10 th he aid not a f> &in consult ate.
disappointment ov r those previously recruited. If he succeeds
in reconstituting the force on that basis, I shall not greatly
regret the disapoearsnoe of its original aeabers. I do not
consider that ©ny of the four pilots were siitsble for their
work, except as regards airmanship mire and simple* the
Chief Pilot in oartioular appears to me to bo an amiable p reon
devoid of any of the qualities of leadership essential in a
peculiarly difficult task.
9. I venture to submit the following suggestions as
regards now personnel.
(1> Mo pains should be spared to seemre capable non ond
willing workers and they should be ciaos n v.lth special roference
to their cwp^oity for working tell with oth re. The conditions
of life Should be explained to them most carefully. The
new Chiaf mot should be a man with the email ties neceseaxp
to impose himself on the oth re and, as far as may be, on
Or! jntale.
(&) As the force is civilian, there should be an understanding
8* The only bright feature in the position is that
Xbn Sa'ud still seems to want British airmen in spite of his
among
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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’
- Pages
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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