IOR/L/PS/12/3562

The file concerns appointments at the Vice-Consulate (later Consulate) at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran].

The file covers:

• emoluments of H G Jakins as Vice Consul of Mohammerah in 1932
• appointment of F C L Chauncy as Vice Consul of Mohammerah in 1932
• clerical posts at the Kuwait Political Agency and at the Vice-Consulate in Mohammerah
• Norwegian consular representation at Abadan
• appointment of Allen Lancelot Austin Dredge as Vice-Consul of Mohammerah in 1941
• proposed opening of a Consulate at Mohammerah and reducing of Ahwaz to a Vice-Consulate
• appointment of F C L Chauncy as Consul of Mohammerah in 1942
• appointment of R A McConaghey as Acting Consul of Mohammerah in 1943
• appointment of R H Cook as Acting Consul of Mohammerah in 1944
• relations between Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire, and Consulate at Khorramshahr
• appointment of V W D Willoughby as Consul of Mohammerah in 1948.

The file is composed of correspondence between the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Government of India; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Viceroy; the Secretary of State for India; the British Consulates at Ahwaz, and Mohammerah; British Petroleum; the Royal Norwegian Legation to London; the British Minister at Tehran.