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‘File 7/10 Mishaps to R.A.F. aircraft’ [34r] (69/200)
The record is made up of 1 file (96 folios). It was created in 2 Oct 1940-14 May 1946. 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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he had done for them. He steadfastly refused any payment y saying
that any help he had given was no more than a very small repayment
of the debt which he owed to English-speaking people for the edu
cation which he had received at the American Mission at Kirmanshah.
Bventually, though he would accept nothing direct from the airmen f
he took 1500 rlyals from the Captain of the w Sea Belle n for dis
tribution among the poor of his village* The airmen spoke to me
again and again of the kindness with which they had been treated
by the Tahirl Customs Officer who seemed y they said, to be a man
who was both liked and respected in the neighbourhood. He was
deferred to by local Shaikhs as well as by humbler folk.
9. My object in writing you this letter is partly to supple
ment the account given in toy Intelligence Summary and partly to
enquire whether it would be possible to secure for the Tahlri Cus
toms Officer recognition of his invaluable aid to British airmen.
I do not know what form this recognition could take. I do not
think a present in money would be appreciated - in fact I think
it would be refused. But it may be possible to secure promotion
for him in the service of the Persian Government, Prom all that
I heard about him he seems to be a man of good status whose pro
motion to a post of much greater responsibility would be in ho
way incongruous. If this suggestion could be carried out it should
also have a good propaganda value as indicating that favours to the
British do not go unrewarded.
Yours sincerely,
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- Content
The letters, telegrams and other papers in the file relate to various forced landings or crashes of Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft, as well as other incidents involving the RAF, in and around the Gulf, during and immediately after the Second World War. The principal 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. in Bahrain, the Political Officer on the Trucial coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (both posts being occupied by numerous incumbents), and a number of RAF officials.
The key events and topics discussed in the file are: reports of a crashed Blenheim aircraft near Dohah [Doha] in December 1941; reports of a missing Boston aircraft in May 1942, and the subsequent discovery of it having made a forced landing on the Persian coast while skirting prohibited airspace above Bahrain; reports of a crashed Bisley aircraft near Sharjah in March 1943; the recovery of aircrews and salvage of aeroplanes; the treatment of aircrews by local inhabitants, including payments to guards requested to protect crash sites; and an incident in February 1942 in which a man was accidentally killed at the bombing range at Sharjah.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (96 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest items at the front of the file to the latest at the end. The office notes at the end of the file (folios 93-98) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The file is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using pencil numbers written in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . The following foliation anomalies occur: 1, 1A.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/275
- Title
- ‘File 7/10 Mishaps to R.A.F. aircraft’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:9v, 11r:16v, 17v:18v, 20r:21v, 23r:64v, 65v:80v, 81v:84v, 85v:86v, 87v:89v, 90v:98v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence