[1] This was a naval expedition to the Makran region on the coast of the Gulf of Oman, straddling the modern border between Iran and Pakistan.
An engagement that was dubbed the Battle of Pashak Pass took place on 28 April between troops landed by Slade and commanded by Walter Sinclair Delamain, and Baluchi tribesmen, inland in the foothills of the Bashagard Mountains.
[4] The Indian administration did not approve of Keppel's position with the Field Force, and denied him the use of the Persian Gulf Telegraph line at that point.
[4] In March 1912, Sir Walter Beaupré Townley, who was married to Keppel's aunt Lady Susan, became British ambassador to Persia.
[1] Keppel in fact disliked Lady Susan, but became embroiled through the career diplomat William James Garnett in the domestic affairs of the Townleys, which saw the military attaché Richard Steel sent home from Teheran after Lady Susan had made advances to him; and then Garnett sent away for interfering via Keppel.
[8] From his travels, Keppel in 1912 donated a collection of cuneiform tablets, and a tile, thought to be from Amarna, to the Norwich Castle Museum in 1912.