| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/9/B/32 |
| Alt Ref No | WG 219/2/5 PT.1 |
| Title | Memorials To The Missing - La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre |
| Description | Main topics: choice of site by National Battlefields Memorial Committee; number of names and names of units to be represented on it; choice of form for memorial and site; appointment of designers for memorials; appointment of Sir A. Webb as assessor and drafting conditions for design competition; questions re architects remuneration for memorial designs; winning design by G. Goldsmith; and proposed modifications to it; search for an affordable site; attempt to find illustrations of British war-time pontoon bridge for a French artist; free grant of site; approval of site and design changes by Webb and Commissioners; choice of inscriptions; and problem of making them historically accurate; contract for sculptural work on memorial by Broadbent & Sons; progress of construction |
| Date | 10/11/1922 - 26/9/1928 |
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| Content Note | Including: Copies of letters and memorandum from Sir. F. Kenyon re procedure for commissioning designs for memorials; 13 and 17 Nov. 1922. Translation of letter from mayor of La Ferte to P. Cart de Lafontaine re site and form for memorial; 23 Dec. 1922. Report by Lafontaine on proposal for bridge as memorial; 27 Dec. 1922. Envelope containing photograph of bridge at La Ferte; c. 29 Nov. 1924. Letters from R. Kipling re inscriptions; 25 Sep. 1925; 3 May 1926 and 5 June 1928. Letter from Secretary of State for War re use of British labour; 17 Nov. 1926. Report by Director of Works re problems with contractors; 12 Sep. 1927. Envelope containing perspective drawing of revised design for memorial. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/3 | Kenyon; Sir; Frederic George (1863-1952); Greek and biblical scholar and museum director | 1863-1952 |
| DS/UK/4 | Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet | 1865-1936 |
| DS/UK/17 | Cart de Lafontaine; Henry Philip Leopold (1884-1963); Lt Col; architect | 1884-1963 |
| DS/UK/34 | Goldsmith; George Hartley (1886-1967); Major; architect | 1886-1967 |