‘File 28/57 II Volunteers for national service’ [275r] (555/719)
The record is made up of 1 volume (351 folios). It was created in 24 Feb 1930-2 Feb 1942. 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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D.CU No. C/684 of 1941
Office of the
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.
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Camp Bahrain.
^ 23rd November 1941.
My dear Weightman
>
Please refer to your demi-official letter No.
D.6378-N/41 dated the 15th November 1941*
2. While I have been in Bahrain Lipp, the General
Manager of the Bahrain Petroleum Company * has several
times mentioned to me the necessity of applying some
kind of conscription to his British employees. Alban
has now consulted him regarding the proposals contained
in the enclosures to your letter* under reference and
he agrees that the regulation described will meet the
needs of the case if applied to Bahrain. He considers
that such a regulation would be of value to the Company
as their employees feel that they are not taking their
due share in the war. This causes a certain restlessness
which the regulation would go far towards remedying.
3. There are about twenty Canadians employed by the
Company who will not be covered by the proposed regulation
Though one or two cases have occurred of Canadians leaving
the Company’s service on frivolous pretexts I do not con
sider it necessary to endeavour to obtain the consent of
the Canadian Government to the regulation being extended
to cover their subjects.
4. The Company allow employees who wish to do so to
spend their leaves in South Africa. Some of these men
on the expiry of their leave have suddenly decided not
to /-
eightman, esquire, I.C.S.,
Additional Secretary to the
Government of India in the
External Affairs Departmentj
New Delhi.
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The volume comprises applications made by individuals in Bahrain (chiefly employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO) for emergency commission to the military forces, and correspondence concerning official policy towards volunteers for military duty, and proposals for the introduction in Bahrain and Qatar of conscription for military duty. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 28/57 I Volunteers for national service’ (IOR/R/15/2/748). The principal correspondents in the file are: the 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay); the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban); the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (Ward P Anderson; Milton H Lipp).
The volume includes:
- correspondence throughout between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and BAPCO representatives, concerning individuals who have applied for military service, including: individuals’ contractual obligations and the importance of their work to BAPCO, education and employment references, suitability for military service, medical certificates, exit permits, arrangements for passage out of Bahrain;
- correspondence related to efforts to secure the return to Bahrain from India of a Miss Henninghem, a nurse previously employed by BAPCO, in consequence of the BAPCO hospital starting to admit members of the armed forces (ff 48-49, ff 86-88, ff 99-100);
- correspondence relating to efforts to secure the services of four British or European women to work as coding staff at the naval wireless transmission office in Bahrain, including enquiries made by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to various British organisations and expatriates in Bahrain, asking after the availability of any possible candidates (ff 58-68);
- correspondence and papers relating to enquiries into the conscription of former BAPCO employees (and others) who are British subjects (including British Canadian and Trinidadian) in India, upon their departure from Bahrain, under the Indian National Service Act (f 118, f 128, ff 133-142, f 175, ff 198-202), and associated correspondence concerning: the difficulties faced by BAPCO in retaining Canadian employees who would prefer to return to work in Canada (ff 164-165); BAPCO employees who take leave in South Africa, only to inform BAPCO that they have no intention of returning to Bahrain (f 189, ff 196-197); queries over the legality of applying the Indian National Service Act to British Canadians (f 217, ff 229-230, ff 242-242); Government proposals, supported by BAPCO, to introduce conscription in Bahrain for work considered essential to the war effort, including oil production, eventually enshrined as Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, under the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. States (Emergency) Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (1939) (ff 271-272, ff 275-277, ff 282-285, ff 290-322);
- correspondence relating to the recruitment of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves (RNVR) at Bahrain, including enquiries made by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. to various organisations in Bahrain, asking after the availability of any possible candidates (ff 121-127, f 129, ff 143-144).
While the earliest piece of correspondence in the volume is dated 24 February 1930 (a school reference submitted by a BAPCO employee, f 174), the volume commences with correspondence dated from October 1940.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (351 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the volume (ff 323-353) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 357; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 6-278; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- Title
- ‘File 28/57 II Volunteers for national service’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 12r:13v, 15r:17v, 21r:25v, 28r:28v, 30r:37v, 36ar, 38r:38v, 41r:41v, 44r:47v, 50r:54v, 57r:60v, 65r:65v, 68r:71v, 73r:74v, 76r:76v, 78r:101v, 103r:114v, 117r:122v, 128r:129v, 131r:142v, 144r:144v, 146r:158v, 160r:169v, 173r:173v, 175r:182v, 184r:186v, 188r:188v, 190r:191v, 194r:197v, 201r:205v, 207r:207v, 209r:209v, 211r:222v, 226r:226v, 228r:228v, 230r:237v, 239r:245v, 247r:247v, 249r:255v, 259r:260v, 262r:262v, 264r:278v, 280r:285v, 287r:288v, 290r:295v, 298r:302v, 304r:307v, 309r:313v, 317r:356v, back-i
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