مجموعة ٢٩ /٨٤ "زورق المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر: طلب فارسي بتغيير الزي الموحّد للطاقم" [و‎‎٣‎٢] (٦٨/٦٣)

COPY.
Copy to: Rendel Caroe
500/2/36.
30th May, 193 6.
On the 26th May, Motamedy, Head of our Department at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, read out to Trott a
communication from the Ministry of tfar to the effect that
sailors at Bushire, not employed in official forces, were
wearing clothes which were very similar to the uniforms of
ratings of the Iranian Navy. In particular the crew of
the Residency launch wore clothes with a turn-down collar
with three white stripes on it and "blue cuffs. This was
very like the uniform of similar ranks in their l\avy. The
Ministry of V/ar thought that, in order to distinguish
"between the two, it would "be a good thing if the launch crew
were to alter some of the details of their uniform; in
particular to substitute some other colour for "blue on
their collars and cuffs, and to have one stripe instead of
three on their collars. Trott said that he supposed that
the launch crew had worn their clothes long before the
Iranian Navy existed. Motamedy took the line that this
might be so but the launch crew’s uniform was esentially a
private one, and that it was desirable that it should not be
liable to be mistaken for the official naval uniform. He
asked therefore that the alterations indicated above should
be made in it.
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The Honourable
Lieutenant Colonel T.C.W. Fowle,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
Bushire.