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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/B/1
Alt Ref NoADD 1/7/14
TitleBritish Battlefield Memorials To Missing - Sites
DescriptionMain topics: negotiations with mayors; prefects and other French officials re proposed designs and sites for British memorials; French opinions of British proposals; inspection and choice of memorial sites.
Date21/2/1922 - 5/3/1925
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Content NoteIncluding: Letter of resignation from Commission staff; 22 July 1919.Note of conversation re opposition to French policy on concentration of graves; 30 Mar. 1922. Letter to A. Ingpen re 34th Division battle exploit memorial; La Boisselle; 11 May 1923. Letter re proposed Somme and Allied memorials promoted by public subscription through the Entente Cordiale Society; 7 June 1923. Note from E. Lutyens re visit to St. Quentin; 2 July 1923. Copy of letter from Director of Works to Sir A. Webb re design competition for memorials to missing; 30 July 1923. Letter from R. Truelove re entering design competition for memorials to missing; 17 Mar. 1924.
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CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive
ArchNoteDOCUMENTS ARE BY OR TO H.P. CART DE LAFONTAINE.RELATES TO MATERIAL IN BUNDLE/BOX/ENVELOPE C/5374/1; MANY PAPERS ARE TYPED REPORTS FROM NOTEBOOK ENTRIES.

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DS/UK/5Lutyens; Sir; Edwin Landseer (1869-1944); architect1869-1944
DS/UK/17Cart de Lafontaine; Henry Philip Leopold (1884-1963); Lt Col; architect1884-1963
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DS/UK/50Ingpen; Arthur Lockyer (1877-1952); Major; barrister, soldier, Commission’s Legal and Land Adviser in France and Belgium, Secretary-General of the Anglo-Belgian Mixed Committee, Secretary-General of the Anglo-French Mixed Committee1877-1952
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