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'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 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'
- Creator:
- Author: Le Messager de Teheran, newspaper
- Date:
- 1917/1939
- Description:
- Abstract: 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 abroadlists of members of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and their families buried in Persiafinancial contributions to the Christian Cemetery Fund, Yezdmaintenance of the British cemeteries of Henjam and Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] after the end of British occupation, in 1935construction of a wall around the new Cemetery site at Kuwait, in 1936list of inscriptions on memorials and gravestones in the cemeteries at Basidu and Henjam, 1936removal of tombstones to the British Cemetery at Shiraz from the old Armenian Cemeteryreplacement of damaged War Grave tablets in the British Cemetery at Shiraz.The file is composed of correspondence between the India Office, 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 in the Persian Gulf.There is a document in French, an extract from Le Messager de Tehran.Physical description: 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 side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- British
Diplomatic service
Consular services - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000648.0x0000a6_ar
81055/vdc_100000000648.0x0000a6_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3604
IOR/L/PS/12/3604