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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/D/28
Alt Ref NoWG 219/12 PT.1
TitleMemorials To The Missing - East Africa
DescriptionMain topics: choice of memorials to native African troops and sites; choice of sculptor; appointment of J.A. Stevenson as sculptor (for Kenya and Tanganyika); obtaining details of costume and physiognomy; commemoration of non-African missing (designs and sites); choices for the commemoration of special cases; refusal of permission to exhume and move some isolated bodies; obtaining names of native African casualties (comparison with West Indies); progress of the sculpture.
Date24/10/1921 - 31/8/1925
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Content NoteIncluding:Letter referring to absence of records for deaths of native African troops; 24 Oct. 1921.Memoranda referring to proposed designs for memorials in East Africa; including a cenotaph (on pattern of Lutyens' design for Whitehall) at Kampala; 12 Dec. 1921 & 14 Jan. 1922.Correspondence with F. Kenyon and Lord Crawford re designs and artists; 2 Mar. 1922 -27 July 1922.Press cutting re native African memorials ("East African Standard"; 3 Jan. 1925).Letters re memorial at Dar-es-Salaam and inscriptions for memorials to native African troops; 30 May 1925.
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DS/UK/3Kenyon; Sir; Frederic George (1863-1952); Greek and biblical scholar and museum director1863-1952
DS/UK/5Lutyens; Sir; Edwin Landseer (1869-1944); architect1869-1944
DS/UK/39Stevenson; James Alexander (1881-1937); sculptor1881-1937
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