Coll 29/42 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: contribution (from Indian revenues) towards cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran; Christian cemeteries in Persia and the Persian Gulf' [36r] (70/704)
The record is made up of 1 file (349 folios). It was created in 8 Aug 1917-5 Sep 1939. It was written in English and French. 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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property of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom.
I have found this question more difficult to answer
than might have been expected. In the case of the other
cemeteries maintained by the Imperial war Graves
Commission in Iran, a title to the land has been acquired
either by purchase, (as for instance at Hamadan) or by
lease, (as at Kazvin). I .can, however, find no record of
I any similar acquisition of title in the case of Henjam
and Basidu. Basidu was never regarded as a British
possession. Presumably therefore the land occupied was
never owned by His Majesty’s Government or the Government
I of India, and this would appear equally true of the cemetery
I
as of the rest of the area. The position in the
case of Henjam would seem to be much the same.
4. During the correspondence regarding the evacuation
of Henjam and Basidu in 1935, His Majesty’s Government
were at pains to obtain an assurance from the Iranian
Government that the two would be respected. This assurance
was duly given. Nothing was said in the correspondence
regarding the title to the land forming the two
cemeteries, nor does there appear to be anything in
Monsieur Kazemi’s note of the 8th April, 1935, and his
subsequent letter to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Kugessen of the
25th April (translations of which were enclosed in the
flatter's despatches Nos. 159 and 187 of the llth April and
the 2nd May, 1935, respectively) which could be construed
as a recognition that the cemeteries are owned by His
Majesty’s Government or the Government of India. I do
not feel able to give the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a
categorical assurance that the cemeteries are British
property, for I cannot say on what exactly is based the
title of His Majesty’s Government, if it exists. It seems
possible that it may now be necessary to acquire a title,
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The file concerns Diplomatic and Consular expenditure towards the cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran, and the maintenance of Christian cemeteries.
The file contains:
- proposal that Indian Revenues should contribute towards the maintenance of a British Chaplain in Tehran, 1923; includes Report of the Inter-departmental Committee on British cemeteries abroad
- lists of members of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and their families buried in Persia
- financial contributions to the Christian Cemetery Fund, Yezd
- maintenance of the British cemeteries of Henjam and Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] after the end of British occupation, in 1935
- construction of a wall around the new Cemetery site at Kuwait, in 1936
- list of inscriptions on memorials and gravestones in the cemeteries at Basidu and Henjam, 1936
- removal of tombstones to the British Cemetery at Shiraz from the old Armenian Cemetery
- replacement of damaged War Grave tablets in the British Cemetery at Shiraz.
The file is composed of correspondence between the 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. , the Office of Works, the Foreign Office, the British Legation at Tehran, the Imperial Bank of Persia, the High Commissioner for India, the British Consulate at Kerman, the British Consulate at Shiraz, the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Admiralty, the Imperial War Graves Commission, 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. .
There is a document in French, an extract from Le Messager de Tehran.
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- 1 file (349 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 350; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 29/42 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: contribution (from Indian revenues) towards cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran; Christian cemeteries in Persia and the Persian Gulf'
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- front, back, front-i, 3r:5v, 8r:51v, 54r:54v, 58r:62v, 64r:78v, 81r:153v, 154v:156v, 158r:222v, 224r:230v, 247v, 250r:255v, 256v:293v, 296r:303v, 306r:306v, 308r:352v, back-i
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