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File 1093/1915 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- H.M. Consul at Mohammerah’ [15r] (23/142)
The record is made up of 1 item (70 folios). It was created in 23 Jan 1915-9 Dec 1926. It was written in English. 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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and address.
K U539/8242/2S34
further communication j
subject, please Quote
i 33 52
Foreign Office.
S.W. 1.
not to any person by name,
but to—
"The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W. 1.
16th August, 1922
With reference to your letter of the 3rd instant,
P.3106, regarding the consulate at Llohanmerah, I am
directed by the Marquess Gurzon of xvedleston to state
that it is not clear to this department whether Captain
^.E. Gastreli is to be given the substantive appointment
of His Majesty's Consul at Mohammerah or whether it is
intended that he should merely officiate as acting consul
during the absence of Assistant Surgeon Lincoln.
2. I am, therefore, to request that Lord Curzon
may be definitely informed as to the status of Captain
Gastrell at Mohammerah.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
e Under secretary of State,
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.
.
1 9 AUG 1922
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Correspondence exchanged chiefly amongst 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. officials concerning the appointment of staff at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Papers dated 1915 concern the immediate appointment to the post of Consul at Mohammerah of Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion; Kennion’s transfer from the War Office to the Indian Political Department; and arrangements for Kennion’s free passage to Mohammerah. Subsequent correspondence concerns: the appointment of Assistant Surgeon C H Lincoln as Acting Consul at Mohammerah in 1916; the temporary appointment of Everard Huddleston Gastrell as Consul in 1922; the temporary replacement of Lincoln as Vice Consul by John Wilson Woodsell in 1926.
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