‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’
- Contributor:
- Controller of Military Pension Accounts, Lahore (correspondent)
- Date:
- 1935/1940
- Description:
- Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Hugh Weightman); the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts (CMPA) in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/23 [I] Miscellaneous. Payment of Military pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and other correspondence regarding.’ (IOR/R/15/2/1518).Papers in the file include:copies of statements (submitted by the Agency) of the names of pensioners transferred from the Bahrain Treasury to other Pension Disbursing Offices, and lists of pensions brought on the Check register of the Bahrain Treasury, for months covering period January 1935 to July 1938. Most statements and lists are marked ‘nil’;circular memoranda from the Lahore CMPA concerning various aspects of pension payments, such as procedure, policy, overpayments, fraud, pay increases;CMPA objection statements detailing the particulars of the CMPA objections over pension payments, audit remarks, replies, and audit decisions. The forms are printed with instructions;correspondence relating to checks on the identity of individuals claiming pensions, including depositions and supporting statements recorded at the Agency;correspondence relating to the transfer of pension payments.The file includes a number of items written in Persian and Arabic.1 file (239 folios)The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 228-240) mirror the chronological arrangement.Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 241; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-225, and ff 229-238; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Language:
- English
Arabic
Persian - Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Military pensions
Colonial administration - Extent:
- 1 file (239 folios)
- Rights:
- Unknown
Open Government Licence - Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0000fe_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0000fe_en
IOR/R/15/2/1519 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers