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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/3/5
Alt Ref NoADD 1/3/8
TitleFX: C & FA Correspondence
DescriptionFile belonging to H. Ellissen, Controller and Financial Adviser.
Main topics: incorrect marking of graves at Hooge Crater Cemetery; management of IWGC operations in Germany; temporary triumphal arch at St Omer (music festival) re-used at Abbeville; recording of names of missing on memorials; staff discipline; labour relations and management of operations in France; work of War Office records staff re names for memorials to missing; contributions towards clergy and religious services; office lease in France; human remains found at a farm; claims by contractors against Commission; gratuities to redundant staff; purchase of office site at Arras; maintenance of war graves in Iraq and India.
Date11/6/1923 - 04/11/1926
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Content NoteIncluding: Minute re powers of Anglo-Palestine War Cemeteries Committee re employment of staff; 11 June 1923.Minute re improper exhumation and removal of bodies at Taranto; 22 May and 12 June 1923.Minute re memorial to missing in Macedonia; 10 Sep. 1923.Correspondence re assessment of staff architects' abilities; 5 Dec. 1923.Correspondence re re-afforestation at Delville Wood; 6 Mar. 1924.Minute re expenditure on Menin Gate; 18 Mar. 1924. Minute re comparison of British and United States war graves; 6 Sep. 1924.Minute re contractor's claims describing technical difficulties with pylons at Etaples Military Cemetery; 29 Oct. 1924.Correspondence re secretaryship of Anglo-French and Anglo-Belgian mixed committees; 8; 13 Jan. and 7 Feb. 1925. Letter to C. Kenneth Murchison (Conservative MP) re request for his son to be commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial instead of at Tyne Cot, dated 23 Jan 1925. Correspondence re faulty construction of Arquata cemetery; Italy; 6 and 9 Feb. 1925. Correspondence re acquisition of Auberchicourt cemetery; 22 and 25 Aug. 1925.Correspondence re appearance of headstones at New Irish Farm Cemetery;11 and 15 Dec. 1925.
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CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive
ArchNoteFILE BELONGING TO CONTROLLER AND FINANCIAL ADVISER (H. ELLISSEN).SEE ALSO FILE: DGRE 46.

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