Record

Unique IDCWGC/1/1/5/26
Alt Ref NoWG 1294 PT.1
TitleExhumation By IWGC - General File
DescriptionMain topics: instructions to Commission staff re exhumations or reburials of newly discovered bodies after demobilisation of DGRE; refusal of DGRE to carry out concentrations of graves requested of them; regulations governing approval for proposed exhumations; arrangements for exhumations made in order to identify body; organisation for conducting exhumation work by the Commission; use of Commission gardeners for reburial work in emergencies; relations with and payments to French authorities and contractors re exhumation and reburial; discussion of procedure for approval and documentation of exhumations; discoveries and identification of bodies; monitoring of discovery of British bodies by reconstruction workers; and steps taken to identify them.
Date15/11/1921 - 29/12/1922
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CWGC_1_1_5_26 opt.pdf

Content NoteIncluding:Complaint from Australian Graves Service that insufficient effort was being made to identify exhumed bodies; 17 and 24 Oct. 1921.Minute by Controller and Financial Adviser re Commission policy on regrouping of graves within a cemetery; 20 Jan. 1922.Letters to Walter Elliot MP and Sir Henry Wilson complaining at official failure to identify bodies discovered during reconstruction work in Somme area; 17 Mar.; 3 Apr.; 23 May 1922.
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive
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