Gholamali Bayandor

Gholamali Bayandor (Persian: غلامعلی بایندر‎) (December 13, 1898 – August 25, 1941) was the Commander of Imperial Iranian Navy from 1931 to August 25, 1941 and was killed during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. He was born in Tehran[1] to ancestors from Bayandur tribe.[2]

Timsar Gholamali Bayandor
Born	13 December 1898 Tehran, Iran
Died	25 August 1941 (aged 42) Khorramshahr, Iran
Buried	Khorramshahr Naval Base
Allegiance	Iran
Years of service	1920–1941
Rank	Commodore
Commands held	Imperial Iranian Navy
Battles/wars	Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran † Simko Shikak revolt
Awards	Order of Zolfaghar
Alma mater	Accademia Navale École Militaire École d'artillerie de Poitiers Fontainebleau

He personally led the men defending Iranian coasts at Khorramshahr and was killed in action, dying a described "gallant death".[3] Commodore Cosmo Graham who served as the Royal Navy's Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf wrote that "[h]is death was regretted by all who knew him. He was intelligent, able, and faithful to Persia."[4]

Legacy

Iranian corvette Bayandor, which was commissioned into service in 1964 and is still active, is named after him.

References

1. Āl-e Dāwūd, Sayyed ʿAlī (2002). بایَندُر، غلامعلی [Bāyandor, Gholām-ʿAlī]. In Mousavi-Bojnourdi, Kazem (ed.). The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (in Persian). 11. Tehran: Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia. pp. 330–331. ISBN 964-7025-07-6.
2. Woods, John E. (1999). The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire (revised and expanded ed.). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 283. ISBN 0-87480-565-1.
3. Schedel, Charles Jr. W. (1985), "Ask Infoser", Warship International, International Naval Research Organization, 22 (1): 101–104, JSTOR 44888943
4. Hermon Gill, George (1957), "Middle East", Australia in the War of 1939–1945, I (1st ed.), Australian War Memorial, p. 388

• Ward, Steven R. (2014). Immortal: a military history of Iran and its armed forces. Georgetown University Press. pp. 155–158. ISBN 9781626160323.