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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' [‎65r] (128/704)

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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PCS/LCD.
Tel.: Sloane 8121.
Ref. Q..* 597 •
IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION,
32, Grosvenor Gardens,
London, S.W.i.
5th August 1937.
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My dear Colonel,
In October last year Rendel of the
Foreign Office wrote a letter to 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.
on the subject of the registration and the future
maintenance of the British Cemeteries at Henjam and
Basidu in Iran.
As a result, an arrangement appears
to have been come to between the Foreign Office, the
Treasury, and 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. that half the cost of
this service should be defrayed by the Government of
the United Kingdom and the other half by the Government
of India. So far as the United Kingdom portion is
concerned, we shall meet this out of the Subhead on our
Estimates granted by the Treasury for the maintenance^
of such non-war graves as they entrust to the Commission
As regards the other half payable by the Government of
India, we shall have to recover this at the end of each
year. May I take it that all we have to do is to send
you a Receivable Order each year at the appropriate
time 7
Yours sincerely,
7.£. $UCi~+
Lieut .Colonel A.F. Rawson Lumby, C.I.E., O.B.E.,
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. ,
S *W. 1 •

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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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English and French in Latin script
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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' [‎65r] (128/704), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3604, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100043084055.0x000081> [accessed 24 February 2025]

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