‘File B/16 IMPERIAL AIRWAYS REST HOUSE AT SHARJAH’

Title:

‘File B/16 IMPERIAL AIRWAYS REST HOUSE AT SHARJAH’

Date:

1935/1940

Description:

Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to three reported incidents at Sharjah Aerodrome, involving the servants, staff and property of Imperial Airways and its successor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The three cases are: the investigation and conviction of refuelling clerk Muhammad Hajiih for the theft of cash from the Wireless Office in 1937; the search and recovery of a missing canoe belonging to Imperial Airways in 1939; the investigation of a complaint made in 1940 by Ibrahim bin Muhammad al Madfa’ the clerk of the Ruler of Sharjah and his brother Isa, a pearl merchant, against two clerks employed by BOAC, concerning the embezzlement of pearls entrusted to them for dispatch by air freight. The main correspondents are the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Residency Agent at Sharjah, Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr [Shaikh Sultan II bin Saqr Al Qasimi] the Ruler of Sharjah, and the airline’s Station Superintendent at Sharjah. Included in the correspondence is a witness statement made in 1940 by Mr G C Sen Gupta the BOAC Cashier and Accounts Clerk. There are both Arabic and English copies of the letters exchanged between the Ruler of Sharjah and the Residency Agent, Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 54; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Three additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 4-23, ff 24-30, and ff 31-43; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Theft
Criminal investigation

Geographic region:

Sharjah

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00026a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00026a_en
IOR/R/15/2/1883
IOR/R/15/2/1883

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