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'File 9/8 Bahrain Levy Corps' [‎76r] (156/480)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (226 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1923-5 Jul 1926. 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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Ho. 458-S of 1924.
British Hesidency and Consulate-General,
Bushire, 12th August 1924.
From J
The Hon'hie Lieut-Col. X. B. Prideaux, C.S.I., C.I.F♦,
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. .
To
fhe Foreign Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign and Political Department, SIMLA.
Stores required for the Bahrain Leviec
Sir,
I have the honour to rep2y to your letter Ho.
B. 1939-X, dated 20th June 1924, with which were returned to
me for scrutiny and remarks certain indents, on behalf of the
Bahrain Levy Corps, forwarded "by Captain Alban, Military
Adviser, Muscat State, to the Chief Ordnance Officer, ^uetta
Arsenal.
Major Daly has reported that these indents were
framed on much too lavish a scale. It is not therefore
necessary to consider them further.
The Government of India in their memorandum Ho.
28 (iv)-y, dated the 24th March 1924, sanctioned the issue of
. ammunition to the Muscat Levy Corps from a stock surplus to
the requirements of the Military at Bushire, which otherwise
wfculd have been dumped in the sea. 120 boxes of Mark VI
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ammunition were in due course sent in the H.I.M.S. w Lawrence 11
to Muscat, and advantage was taken of the same opportunity
to send 60 boxes to Bahrain. here are three hundred
rifles, the property of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, lying
in the Hesidency, which the Company have authorised me to dump
in the sea, and I intended doing this at the time of the final
evacuation by the military garrison of Bushire.
Major

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The volume relates to the institution of a Levy Corps in Bahrain, and more specifically to the recruitment, training, equipment (military, non-military) and costs of maintaining the force. The main correspondents in the file are 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 (Major Clive Daly, or George Mallam as Acting Agent in Daly's absence), 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Trevor until April 1924, thereafter Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Prideaux), and Captains A. Campbell and T. H. Geake, Commanding Officers of the Bahrain Levy Corps for the first and second years respectively.

The institution of the Bahrain Levy Corps was set up with the assistance of 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. in Muscat, and the previously established Muscat Levy Corps, the intention being that the Commandant of the Muscat Levies, Captain Alban, would supervise the new Bahrain Levies, and that the first recruits for the Bahrain Levies be recruited from Muscat. However, the process of recruitment was hampered by Alban becoming ill, and a shortage of suitable men being found. Daly noted, in a letter dated 25 October 1924 that “the enlistment of men was mismanaged - many undesirables were enlisted and many unfit.” (folios 111-112). The main area of concern was the recruitment to the Levies of Persian Makranis. An express letter from Daly to Prideaux, dated 29 May 1925, noted that the Bahrain Levy Corps comprised 46 British subjects, 23 Persian subjects, 39 Muscat subjects, and 1 Yemeni subject (folio 127). This letter followed shortly after an incident, on 25 May 1925, in which one of the Persian Levies at Bahrain murdered two of his colleagues (folio 134). Continuous efforts were made afterwards to reduce the number of Persians in the Bahrain Levies (folios 187, 191).

An annual report for the Bahrain Levy Corps, written by Campbell at the end of his service (July 1925), gives detail on the challenges facing the institution of the Bahrain Levy Corps, its recruitment process, disciplinary record, as well as information on the Bahrain state prison (folios 153-68).

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1 volume (226 folios)
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The items in the volume have been arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest items at the front of the volume to the latest at the end.

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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There is an earlier foliation system using blue pencil circled numbers in the top-right corner of rectos, which runs from folios 7 to 26. There are no foliation anomalies.

The following folios are fold-outs: 33, 52, 54, 87-89, 91, 92, 116, 117, 120, 146, 148, 149, 163-66, 208, 209, 219.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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