Areas under HM Jurisdiction

The birth or other events must have taken place by the date specified in '( )'

Abu Dhabi (to 21 Mar 1972)
Ajman (to 21 Mar 1972)
Albania (to 5 Feb 1926)
Abyssinia - see Ethiopia
Arabia (to 30 Jun 1919)
Aruba (to 15 Jan 1942)
Bahrain (to 14 Jan 1972)
Barotseland - see Northern Rhodesia
Bechuanaland Protectorate (to 29 Sep 1966)
Bhutan (to 14 Aug 1947)
Borneo, other territories on, later forming part of Malaysia (to 15 Sep 1963)
British Solomon Islands Protectorate (to 16 Dec 1920)
Brunei (to 31 Dec 1982)
Bulgaria (to 8 Aug 1920)
Bushir (to 30 Jun 1947)
Cameroons - British (to 30 Sep 1961)
Canton Island (to 31 Dec 1974)
Caprivi Strip (to 31 Oct 1929)
China (North East - the area occupied by Japan during WW2) (to 4 Mar 1942)
China (to 19 May 1943)
China seas (to 20 May 1943)
Congo, Independent State of (to 17 Oct 1908)
Crete (to 29 May 1913)
Cyprus (to 4 Nov 1914)
Cyrenaica (to 17 Oct 1912)
Dubai (to 21 Mar 1972)
Egypt (to 14 Oct 1949)
Ethiopia (to 30 Apr 1942)
Fezzan (to 17 Oct 1912)
Fujairah (to 21 Mar 1972)
Gambia Protectorate (to 17 Feb 1965)
Gilbert and Ellice Islands (to 11 Nov 1915)
Greece (to 30 Aug 1914)
Indian Princely States (to 14 Aug 1947)
Iran - see Persia
Iraq (to 20 Sep 1932)
Jordan - see Transjordan
Kalba (to 29 Jul 1952)
Kamaran (to 31 Dec 1953)
Kashgar (to 20 May 1943)
Kenya Protectorate (to 11 Dec 1963)
Korea (to 23 Jan 1911)
Kuwait (to 18 Jun 1961)
Macao (to 19 May 1943)
Malay States, former Federated (to 30 Aug 1957)
Malay states, unfederated (to 30 Aug 1957)
Malaya (to 30 Aug 1957)
Maldive Islands (to 25 Jul 1965)
Mesopotamia - see Iraq
Morocco, French Zone (to 31 Dec 1937)
Morocco, Tangier Zone (to 31 May 1925)
Morocco, former Spanish Zone (to 5 Dec 1956)
Muscat and Oman (to 31 Dec 1966)
Nauru (to 30 Jan 1968)
Nejd (to 19 May 1927)
New Guinea (to 30 Jan 1980)
New Hebrides (to 29 Jul 1980)
Nigeria, Protectorate of (to 30 Sep 1960)
North Borneo (to 14 Jul 1946)
North Eastern Rhodesia - see Northern Rhodesia
North West Rhodesia - see Northern Rhodesia
Northern Nigeria Protectorate (to 31 Dec 1913)
Northern Rhodesia (to 23 Oct 1964)
Northern Solomons (excluding Bougainville) (to 6 Jul 1978)
Northern Territories - part of Gold Coast (to 5 Mar 1957)
Nyasaland Protectorate (to 5 Jul 1964)
Ogaden (to 30 Jun 1946)
Palestine (to 14 May 1948)
Persia (to 6 May 1929)
Persian coastal provinces on the Gulf (to 9 May 1928)
Phoenix Islands (to 17 Mar 1937)
Qatar (to 7 Feb 1972)
Ras al Khaiman (to 21 Mar 1972)
Sarawak (to 30 Jun 1946)
Sharjah (to 21 Mar 1972)
Sierra Leone, Protectorate of (to 26 Apr 1961)
Somaliland, State of - formerly British Somaliland (to 26 Jun 1960)
South Arabia, Protectorate of (to 29 Nov 1967)
South-West Africa (to 30 May 1962)
Southern Nigeria Protectorate (to 15 Feb 1906)
Southern Rhodesia (to 20 Sep 1923)
Swaziland (to 5 Sep 1968)
Syria (to 31 Jan 1924)
Tanganyika (to 8 Dec 1961)
Thailand (to 21 Feb 1940)
Togoland, British (to 5 Mar 1957)
Tonga (to 3 Jun 1970)
Transjordan (to 21 Mar 1946)
Tripolitania (to 17 Oct 1912)
Turkey (to 5 Aug 1924)
Uganda Protectorate (to 8 Oct 1962) Umm al Qaiwain (to 21 Mar 1972) Union Islands (to 18 May 1916) Wei-Hai-Wei (Islands and a belt of land on the coast 10 miles wide) (to 20 May 1943)
Weihai (to 20 May 1943)
Western Samoa (to 31 Dec 1961)
Zanzibar (Sultanate) (to 9 Dec 1963)

The birth or other events must have taken place by the date specified in '( )'

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