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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/5/33
Alt Ref NoWG 1267
TitleReligious Emblems On Memorials
DescriptionMain topics: request from wife; relayed through Salvation Army; to have Salvation Army crest instead of cross on a Commission headstone; confusion of policy on the matter; decision to offer headstones without crosses to relatives demanding special emblems; for later addition of emblem; enquiries about special emblems for Wesleyans; Saint Andrew's cross for Scots; Free Masons' and Dutch Reformed Church; religious symbols for Indian Buddhist and animist graves.
Date1/6/1920 - 27/5/1946
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Content NoteIncluding: Letter from F. Ware to Salvation Army offering various courses of action; 22 Sep. 1920. Correspondence with F. Kenyon re appropriate symbol for headstones of animists and Buddhists; 4 Apr.- 9 May 1923. Letter to Kenyon re emblem for headstone on Coptic grave; 5 and 12 Oct. 1923.
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DS/UK/3Kenyon; Sir; Frederic George (1863-1952); Greek and biblical scholar and museum director1863-1952
DS/UK/2Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission1869-1949
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