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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/8/26
Alt Ref NoWG 798/11 PT.1
TitleEnemy Graves And Interned Civilians - Egypt - Palestine - Syria
DescriptionMain topics: responsibility for and treatment of prisoner of war graves in Egypt; transfer of treaty obligations re war graves from British to Egyptian government; erection of German headstones on prisoner of war graves; and obtaining permanent titles to them; correspondence with Foreign Office re absence of common standards for treatment of enemy graves in British controlled territory; erection of private memorials by relatives on enemy graves in British cemeteries; concern of relatives of German dead re burials in Palestine; and enquiries about erection of private memorials; importance of treatment of prisoner of war graves in British controlled territory for negotiations re war cemeteries in Turkey; care and treatment of graves in Muslim cemeteries in Egypt by Commission.
Date21/5/1918 - 31/12/1923
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Content NoteIncluding: Extracts from minutes of meetings of Anglo-Egyptian War Cemeteries Executive Committee, 9 Apr. and 9 Aug. 1921, 4 Nov. 1922, 15 Jan., 27 Aug., 5 and 15 Nov., 31 Dec. 1923. Letter from Chairman, Anglo-Egyptian Committee, re care of prisoner of war graves by Egyptian government, with photograph, 10 Jan. 1923. Letter from Lord Allenby (High Commissioner for Egypt) to Foreign Office re treaty obligations towards prisoner of war graves in Egypt, 8 May and 18 June 1923. Report by Deputy Director of Works, Egypt, re prisoner of war cemeteries; with photographs, 23 Nov. 1923. Letter from Chairman, Anglo-Egyptian Committee re proposal to erect monuments to Turkish prisoners of war as alternative to marking graves, 17 Nov. 1923.
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