| Description | Typed transcript of pp.1-50 of Belgrave's diary for 1 January to 2 May 1945. Topics covered include news that Marjorie Belgrave was awarded the Kaiser i Hind medal in the New Year's Honours list for her work in India (1 January), plans for a new race course (4 January, 9 February), sentencing in the stolen ammunition case (8 January), visits to the cinema (8 January, 19 April), dinner with the Godfreys and home movies of Belgrave's trek in Kashmir (11 January), discharge of four policemen involved in losing a rifle (18 January), death of 400 goats and sheep due to weather (29 January), four killed in a road accident (8 February), opening of the new horse racing course (16 February), official photograph session for Shaikh Salman (27 February), arrival of Bishop Stewart (13 March) and the Duke of Devonshire (15 March), party and school presentation for Marjorie Belgrave to celebrate her KiH medal (20 March), visit from General Wavell, Viceroy of India (21 March), departure of Marjorie and James Belgrave for England by air (22 March), departure of political agent Hickinbotham (27 March), summary of the shaikhs' accounts (31 March, 3 April), plans for British police in Bahrain (8 April), replacement of Hickinbotham with C.J. Pelly (10, 26April), and a visit from the 'LIFE' magazine photographer and TIME journalist Dmitri Kessel (14 April). |