| Description | Printed booklet comprising the report to the Imperial War Graves Commission by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Kenyon, KCB., Director of the British Museum, and artistic advisor to the IWGC, setting out the proposals of the Imperial War Graves Commission with regards to the permanent commemoration of British and Imperial casualties of the war, and the architectural treatment of their cemeteries and memorials, as well as well as addressing legal and practical matters of policy. |
| Content Note | Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum, was also artistic advisor to the IWGC from 1917 until 1948. In this role he played a major part in forging the principles and practices that shaped the Commission in its formative years, and by which its work is still guided today. This report sets out these guiding principles, and was used as part of a campaign to win over public opinion regarding the work of the Commission, as initially there was much opposition in some quarters to the principle of non-repatriation of the war dead, and to the decision by the Commission to use rectangular rather than cruciform headstones. |