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Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/2/592
File NumberCCM102013
TitleJemadar ZAFAR HUSAIN - TEHRAN MEMORIAL - 24th Punjabis
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DescriptionFile of correspondence regarding Jemadar Zafar Husain who is commemorated on the Tehran Memorial, Iran. Main topics include: correspondence regarding request from next of kin for information about the location of Jemadar Husain’s grave; correspondence regarding investigation and search for the grave at the location of his reported burial in Beykoz, Turkey; correspondence regarding the Commission’s inability to locate the grave and subsequent commemoration of Jemadar Husain on the Tehran Memorial.
Content NoteIncludes: Copy letter from the Military Adviser and Head of Joint Services Liaison Staff, Office of the High Commissioner for Pakistan, to the CWGC Director of External Relations and Records regarding request from Major Khurshid Zafar, son of the casualty, for information about the location of Jemadar Husain’s grave, dated 14 March 1962; letter from the P.N.D., CWGC Director of External Relations and Records, to the Regional Director, Southern Region, enquiring whether there was any trace of Jemadar Husain’s burial in Bekoz (or Beykoz), dated 20 March 1962; letter from the CWGC Director-General to the Military Adviser, Office of the High Commissioner for Pakistan, stating that the Commission had no record in the UK that Jemadar Husain had an identified grave, and that he was originally noted for commemoration on the Reshire Memorial, but was to be recorded on the Tehran Memorial instead, dated 21 March 1962; letter from Major Bashir Ahmad, Military Adviser, Office of the High Commissioner for Pakistan, to W.J. Chalmers, CWGC Director, providing further information about Jemadar Husain’s death and location in which he was originally buried, dated 21 September 1962; letter from the Regional Director, Southern Region, to the CWGC Director-General with summary of the Area Superintendent’s report on his investigation into the location of the grave with members of the local population in Beykoz, dated 25 February 1963; four photographs showing the location of the supposed grave, dated 25 February 1963; letter from the CWGC Director-General to the Military Adviser, Office of the High Commissioner for Pakistan, explaining that the inspection of the site near Beykoz found that it was not possible to find the grave, and that Jemadar Husain was to be commemorated on the Tehran Memorial, dated 16 May 1963.
Date14/3/1962 - 17/5/1963
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryEfiles
Cemetery_NameTEHRAN MEMORIAL
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