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‘File 7/33 Demonstration flights over Trucial Coast by R.A.F. bombers from Air Head Quarters Iraq’ [‎2r] (5/38)

The record is made up of 1 file (17 folios). It was created in 28 May 1949-16 Jul 1949. 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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COPY
SECRET
CIPHEK MESSAGE
Date May 28th
Receipt
Despatch
Time of 28 1447Z
29 G6C0Z
FROM
A.H.Q, IRAQ
System
W.T
Hand
ACCX 71 May 28th Secret.
For 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. from A.O.C.
Your letter 157/5C/49 May 23rd. Will certainly help. Suggest
some time week commencing June 6th or week commencing June ISth.
"•^tter preferable to us. Will send FCUR BRIGANDS which are
Twin Engined Bombers to Sharjah and undertake TWO formation flights
over area. Will also have to position DAKOTA at SHARJAH with
maintenance personnel. BRIGANDS will also be based SHARJAH. I
prefer we fix this affair between ourselves without reference to
higher authority. Would suggest also that in TWO or Three MONTHS
time we issue an invitation to all SHEIKHS including petty ones to
demonstration in SHARJAH district of dropping live 1,00 0 pounder
ROCKETS with war heads and cannon firing. The bangs and the dust
might well impress them.
T.O.O. 28C830Z
Decyphered by J. CORLETT
UNPARAPHRASED LITERAL TEXT
OF CYPHER MESSAGE.

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The file’s correspondence and other papers concern a demonstration by Royal Air Force [RAF] aircraft, which took place over the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (including Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah) in June 1949. The correspondents in the file include 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. at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay), and various RAF officials from Air Headquarters in Habbaniyah in Iraq. A report of the demonstration, written by GE Lewis, Air Staff Liaison Officer, is included in the file (folios 13-14). Proposals for a bombing demonstation outside Sharjah for October or November 1949 are also discussed by officials.

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1 file (17 folios)
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The file is arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest items at the front of the file to the latest at the end. Circled index numbers written using blue/red crayon can be found throughout the file, and refer to the office notes at the end of the file (folio 17).

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Foliation: foliation sequence begins on the front cover and ends on the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found 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. The following foliation anomalies occur: 1, and 1A.

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