| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/3/3 |
| Alt Ref No | ADD 1/3/3 |
| Title | FX: Confidential - Financial Admin |
| Description | Main topics: Financial Adviser's views on organisation of Commission's operations; staff salaries; conditions of service and discipline; health problems; combining posts of Financial Adviser and Controller of Administration; financial control of architectural work; criticism of performance of staff architects; appointments of Dominion citizens to IWGC posts; dealings with construction contractors; costs and proposals for memorials to missing; Commission's work in Holland; condition and maintenance of cemeteries and memorials in Egypt. |
| Date | 28/1/1920 - 23/5/1923 |
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| Content Note | Including:Memorandum on organisation of Commission's work (no date [1920]; at end of file) refers to manufacture of Great War Stone.Letter from R. Blomfield re complaints by architects about financial interference in their designs; 2 Nov. 1920.Letter from F. Kenyon re performance of architectural staff; 23 Dec. 1920.Correspondence re graves of British troops dying in Ireland; 20 and 24 Apr. 1921.Letter from Genl. Hunter Weston re proposed Gallipoli memorial; 3 Aug. 1921.Minute re procedure for considering exhumations and removal of graves; 11 Aug. 1921.Memorandum of conference on collapse of Crosses of Sacrifice; 21 Sep. 1921.Minute re commemoration of Canadian missing; 14 Nov. 1921.Report on priority construction programme and land acquisition; 10 Dec. 1921.Letter to R. Kipling re staff duties and salaries; 18 Dec. 1921.Memorandum of meeting with R. Blomfield re payment to contractors; 20 Feb. 1920.Memorandum of inspection of cemeteries by R. Blomfield; 19 Mar. 1922.Memorandum re war graves in Efford Road cemetery; Plymouth; 7 Dec. 1922. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
| ArchNote | FILE BELONGING TO CONTROLLER AND FINANCIAL ADVISER' (H. ELLISSEN). |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/3 | Kenyon; Sir; Frederic George (1863-1952); Greek and biblical scholar and museum director | 1863-1952 |
| DS/UK/4 | Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet | 1865-1936 |
| DS/UK/7 | Blomfield; Sir; Reginald Theodore (1856-1942); architect | 1856-1942 |
| DS/UK/23 | Ellissen; Sir; Herbert (1876-1952); Lieutenant Colonel; financial adviser, IWGC Commissioner and adviser on post-war organisation and reconstruction | 1876-1952 |