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'File 18/11 Provost Personnel for the Trucial Coast' [5r] (9/24)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in 31 Jul 1944-17 Aug 1944. 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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ONFIDEN'TIAL Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
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No.^/1141, Bahrain, Slat Jaljr 1944.
To
The Hon f ble 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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^amp Shiraz.
MEMOP./>NEIUM ^ , .V' ' ^
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A note prepared by the Politi^l Officer Truoial
^oast on U.S.A./i.F. Expansion at Sharjah is forwarded
herewith. Thera is a discrepancy between paragraph 7
of the note and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Air Officer ^om-
raanding's telegram No.AA^ 90 dated the 1st July. The
Political Officer Trucial '•"oast tells me that Lieut .Tolly* s
information was "as far as he (Tolly) understood".
2. The point whether the expansion is for permanent or
transit personnel requires elucidation, in relation to the
question of providing provost personnel, (vide this office
memorandum No.^/1140 dated the 31st July 1944, sent by
s^me mail). \ , j
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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.
, Bahrain.
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The file relates to the question of whether to use a small force of United States Army Provost personnel to undertake policing duties at the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) base at Sharjah. The file contains correspondence 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. , Bahrain and 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. , and reports from Reginald Michael Hadow, the Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The papers also include a report by Hadow entitled 'USAAF Expansion in Sharjah', dated 28 July 1944; and papers concerning a reported assault on a woman in Sharjah that may have involved American servicemen, August 1944.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (10 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Circled serial numbers in blue crayon (indicating incoming correspondence) refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 12 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. A second foliation sequence is present between ff. 2-10: these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/2/580
- Title
- 'File 18/11 Provost Personnel for the Trucial Coast'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:11v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence