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File 1093/1915 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- H.M. Consul at Mohammerah’ [49v] (92/142)
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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not been for the expectation of receiving,
travelling allowance on this basis he would not
have taken the short period of Privilege Leave
in England that expired on the 20th July. This
being so, I think Lieutenant-Colonel Kennion has
been badly hit by the rearrangement which resulted
from the outbreak of war and the cancellation of his
appointment at Kashgar. It is not possible here
to state what Lieutenant-Colonel Kennion’s
travelling allowance for the journey from the
‘alakand to Kashgar (which would have been partly
by rail and partly by road) would have amounted to,
’out if the facts are as indicated above, I think,
as a special case, that free passage to India might
be allowed him. I would suggest that the fact*
should be brought to the notice of the Government
of India,and that if thev support Lieutenant-Colonel
Kennion’s contention, they should be authorised to
issue passage allowance to him.
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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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