Record

Unique IDCWGC/1/1/8/20
Alt Ref NoWG 843/3
TitleExhumations UK - Americans
DescriptionMain topics: plans for the repatriation of bodies by the United States; Ministry of Transport's views on problems of moving the bodies; maintenance of United States graves which are not moved; refusal by Commission to consent to (while not preventing) exhumation of a United States citizen who had been in the RAF; agreement of US forces that burial place of US citizens in British forces was a matter for the British authorities; question whether Americans serving in British forces remain US citizens; concern for opinion of relatives of Dominion dead if repatriation of US citizens serving in British forces is allowed.
Date13/12/1919 - 11/8/1943
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CWGC_1_1_8_20 opt.pdf

Content NoteIncluding: draft letter by F. Ware to relatives of US citizens who died in British forces; with letter to US embassy; 17 Feb. 1922.
Extent1 file
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CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/2Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission1869-1949