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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/F/1
Alt Ref NoWG 1734/1 PT.1
TitleTablets In Cathedrals - France And Belgium
DescriptionMain topics: choice of sites; materials and design for memorial tablets to British Empire dead; designed by P. Cart de Lafontaine; formation of committee to consider tablets; consisting of Sir G. Macdonogh; Sir H. Creedy (War Office); R. Kipling and F. Ware; visits to cathedrals and discussions with diocesan authorities re erection of tablets; supply of tablets by R. Hallward; wording of and space to be occupied by inscription; agreement of Dominions to participate in scheme for memorial tablets; consultation with College of Arms re design of tablets; abortive proposal to include names of battles on tablets.
Date30/3/1922 - 12/11/1923
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Content NoteIncluding: Report of interview with Prefet of the Somme re proposals for memorials to missing; 30 Mar. 1922. Report of interview with official at Prefecture of the Somme re French public dissatisfaction with policy of concentrating graves to a few cemeteries; with letter; 28 July 1922. Quotation from R. Hallward re production of tablets in various materials; 21 Oct. 1922. Letter re criticisms of colouring of tablet; 5 Oct. 1923.
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DS/UK/4Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet1865-1936
DS/UK/2Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission1869-1949
DS/UK/17Cart de Lafontaine; Henry Philip Leopold (1884-1963); Lt Col; architect1884-1963
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