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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/5/20
Alt Ref NoADD 1/1/10
TitleEquality Of Treatment - Debate In House Of Commons; 1920
DescriptionRefers to speech made by W. Burdett-Coutts supporting IWGC policy on cemetery design; and to preparatory meeting at House of Commons.
Date1/2/1920 - 24/5/1920
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Content NoteIncluding:/1: "Memorandum on Headstones Exhibited in the House of Commons Tea Room; February 1920"./2-/5: "War Graves. Statement of Reasons in Support of the Proposal of the IWGC"; by W. Burdett-Coutts; 24 Apr. 1920 (2 printed; 2 photocopies)./6-/9: Signature sheets for MPs attending House of Commons meeting at which Ware; Kipling and senior IWGC officers were present; 27 Apr. 1920./10-/11: "Parliamentary Debates; House of Commons"; Tuesday 4 May 1920; Vol 128 - No.54 (2 printed copies)./12-/13: Photocopies of pp. 1931-1974 of "Parliamentary Debates"; Vol 128 - No.54./14-/17: IWGC pamphlet reproducing Burdett-Coutts' speech and Statements of Reasons; no date (3 prtd; 1 photocopy)./18-/20: Reprint from "Westminster Gazette" of collected press comments on Burdett-Coutts' speech; 7; 14 May 1920 (2 prtd; 1 photocopy)./21-/22: Reprint of correspondence between W. Churchill and W. Burdett-Coutts re speech; 21; 24 May 1920 (1 prtd; 1 photocopy)./23: MS. summary of speakers points in debate.
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CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive
ArchNoteSOME OF THESE PAPERS WERE TAKEN FROM FILE WG 491.

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DS/UK/4Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet1865-1936
DS/UK/2Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission1869-1949
DS/UK/52Churchill; Sir; Winston Leonard (1874-1965); politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission1874-1965
DS/UK/53Burdett-Coutts; William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett (1851-1921); politician, Member of Parliament1851-1921
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