| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/9/B/3 |
| Alt Ref No | ACON 56 |
| Title | Memorials to the Missing |
| Description | Main topics: method for preparing lists of names for memorials to missing; objections to various proposed memorials from Commission des Monuments Historiques; re-siting of some proposed memorials; Vimy memorial; and Canadian wishes to deal independently with France; discussions of policy re memorials in Anglo-French Mixed Committee; incorporation of inscriptions to allies and French on British memorials; acquisition of Thiepval site; and proposals for its treatment; Lutyens' designs for memorial at St. Quentin and for Thiepval. |
| Date | 17/12/1923 - 23/12/1926 |
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| Content Note | Including:Report by A. Ingpen to Anglo-French Committee re French objections to British memorial proposals; 27 May 1926.Minute re memorials at Soissons; Cambrai and Nieuport (Belgium); mentioning C. Jagger; 29 June 1926.Letter from Lord Crewe (Ambassador to France) favouring modest monuments; 9 July 1926.Letters from F. Ware to R. Kipling re inscriptions honouring French and French approval of Thiepval design; 13 July and 22 Nov. 1926. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/4 | Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet | 1865-1936 |
| DS/UK/5 | Lutyens; Sir; Edwin Landseer (1869-1944); architect | 1869-1944 |
| DS/UK/2 | Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission | 1869-1949 |
| DS/UK/50 | Ingpen; 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 Committee | 1877-1952 |
| hillDS/UK/20 | Jagger; Charles Sargeant (1885-1934); sculptor | 1885-1934 |