| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/5/18 |
| Alt Ref No | WG 999 |
| Title | Mr Burdett-Coutts |
| Description | Main topics: drafting of W. Burdett-Coutts' Statement of Reasons in Support of the Proposal of the IWGC; organisation of support for Commission policy in House of Commons debate; arrangements to distribute pr. copies of Burdett-Coutts' speech in support of the Commission through ex-servicemen's organisations; various suggestions re commemoration of the dead; and request for information from members of the public forwarded to commission by Burdett-Coutts; |
| Date | 15/4/1920 - 19/12/1921 |
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| Content Note | Including: Copy of petition to Prince of Wales from Trades Union Congress Parliamentary Committee (1919) re policy of equality of treatment; with letter; 19 Apr. 1920. Copy of letter from Sir G. Perley to W. Churchill re equality of treatment; 19 Apr. 1920. Letter from Sir A. Mond to F. Ware re inaccuracies in Burdett-Coutts' statement; 30 Apr. 1920. Letter from Burdett-Coutts re address to MPs by R. Kipling; 6 May 1920. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
| ArchNote | DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THIS FILE ARE IN [EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FILE]. |
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| DS/UK/4 | Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet | 1865-1936 |
| 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/52 | Churchill; Sir; Winston Leonard (1874-1965); politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission | 1874-1965 |
| DS/UK/53 | Burdett-Coutts; William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett (1851-1921); politician, Member of Parliament | 1851-1921 |
| DS/UK/61 | Windsor [formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]; Edward (1894-1972); King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, Emperor of India, Prince of Wales, Duke of Windsor, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Saxony, and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; President of the Imperial War Graves Commission | 1894-1972 |