| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/1/20 |
| Alt Ref No | ADD 4/1/3 |
| Title | Red Cross Record Office File 388a: Mr Fabian Ware's Mobile Unit |
| Description | Main topics: organisational arrangements with and reports to Joint War Committee of the Red Cross and Order of Saint John re ambulance operations of Red Cross Mobile Unit; appointments of personnel to the Unit; arrangements for provisions to unit; letters of thanks from French authorities; and award of decorations to Mobile Unit officers; letters authorising movements of personnel and vehicles; standing orders and operational procedures; termination of work for French army and engagement in registration of soldiers' graves for Graves Registration Commission (GRC); transfer of Graves Registration Commission (GRC) to Army. |
| Date | 15/11/1914 - 5/11/1915 |
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| Content Note | Including: Correspondence with Ian Malcolm and the Adjutant General (Genl. Sir N. Macready) and between Macready and R. Cecil re the registration of soldiers graves; and some letters re exhumation of bodies. Letter from Ware re horticultural care of burial grounds; 2 Oct. 1915. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
| ArchNote | DOCUMENTS ARE BY AND TO ADMINISTRATORS OF BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY; MUCH OF IT FROM F. WARE; ACQUIRED FROM THE RED CROSS BY F. TYRRELL IN 1928; IN DATE ORDER FROM FRONT. |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/2 | Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission | 1869-1949 |
| DS/UK/10 | Macready; Sir; (Cecil Frederick) Nevil (1862-1946); first baronet; army officer | 1862-1946 |
| DS/UK/46 | Tyrrell; Frank (1892-1964); Chief Clerk, Personal Assistant to Sir Fabian Ware | 1892-1964 |
| DS/UK/54 | Gascoyne-Cecil; Lord; Edgar Algernon Robert (1864-1958); 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood;; statesman, lawyer, co-creator of the League of Nations | 1864-1958 |