| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/5/21 |
| Alt Ref No | WG 783 PT.1 |
| Title | War Graves Association |
| Description | Main topics: petition in favour of repatriation of bodies of British dead; organised by Mrs S.A. Smith of Leeds; Commission's response to criticism of the decision against repatriation; resolutions by branches of British War Graves Association re repatriation of bodies and free passages for relatives to visit graves; requests that Association be given official facilities to assist relatives to visit cemeteries abroad (pilgrimages); threats to make illegal exhumations if right of repatriation is refused; and applications to French and Belgian governments to allow exhumation of British bodies for repatriation; correspondence between Association and various members of government or Parliament; criticisms of appearance of cemeteries and materials used resulting from pilgrimages by Association members to cemeteries; plea that bodies should be placed in coffins. |
| Date | 1/5/1919 - 2/1/1925 |
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| Content Note | Including: List of petitioners names; many with relationship to dead; c. May 1919. Copy of press cutting reporting meeting of Yorkshire Association of Claiming the Fallen; and formation of a Wakefield branch; 12 Feb. 1920. Press cutting announcing formation of British War Graves Association; 24 Apr. 1920. Letter from F. Ware to Sir R. Hudson re connection of Association with other opponents of Commission policy; 13 Dec. 1922. Letter from Association member to P. Snowden; with application form for membership and statement of objects of Association; 3 Mar. 1924. Press cutting re repatriation to UK of body of Leeds man who served with US Army; 13 May 1924. Copies of letters from Sarah Smith to Lady Selborne and Lady Selborne to S. Walsh M.P. re repatriation of bodies; 21 and 26 June 1924. Letter from Sheffield branch of Association re objections to burial of British dead in Germany; 10 Dec. 1924. Copy of letter from Lady Selborne to Secretary of State for War re British burials in Germany; 30 Dec. 1924. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
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| 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 |