Record

Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/D/26
Alt Ref NoWG 127/5/4 PT.1
TitleDelhi (India Gate) War Memorial
DescriptionMain topics: proposed memorial at Attock; suitability of India Arch; Delhi as IWGC memorial to missing; Lutyens' proposals for addition of names of missing; dispute with government of India over payment for headstones; verifying and inscribing names; dedicatory inscription (correspondence refers also to R. Kipling); Lutyens' expenses; addition of register box to memorial; refusal to concentrate unmaintainable graves.
Date9/3/1928 - 4/4/1935
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CWGC_1_1_9_D_26 opt.pdf

Content NoteIncluding:Copy by E. Lutyens of own letter to Lord Irwin (Viceroy) with small sketch of arch added; 1 May 1928.Memorandum re proposed memorial at Bushire (Persia); 21 May 1930.
Extent1 file
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DS/UK/4Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet1865-1936
DS/UK/5Lutyens; Sir; Edwin Landseer (1869-1944); architect1869-1944

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