| Description | Typed transcript of pages 36-68 of Belgrave's diary, covering the period between 8 June and 21 August 1926. Topics covered include improvement of travel - London to Baghdad in six days (17 June), attempts at photography (22 June, 15 July) and sketching/painting (10 &12 July), a visit to the Sheikh Hamed's other brother Sheikh Mahomed (22 June), the departure of Lieutenant Geake of the Levy Corps (30 June) into whose residence, 'The Fort', the Belgraves moved, visit to the new police station at Muharraq (17-18 July), a show for the Muharram Islamic festival (19-21 July), a meeting with American medical missionary Dr Paul Harrison (23 July), more encounters with Sheikh Abdulla (28 July), numerous court hearings, the shooting of the head of police (3 August), an attack on Major Daly - who was seriously wounded - and two other men who died (4 August) with subsequent arrival of a naval cruiser, use of torture to extract information (15 August) and the court trials. |