IOR/L/PS/12/3604

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 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.