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CWGC - Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- 1 - Historic Archive
  - 1 - Part 1 - Work of the Commission in Connection with First World War Deaths
    - 9 - Memorials Erected By The Commission
      - F - Memorial Tablets In Cathedrals To All British Empire Dead

Unique ID	CWGC/1/1/9/F/14
Alt Ref No	WG 1734/1/3/1
Title	Tablets In Cathedrals - France And Belgium - Notre Dame - Unveiling
Description	Main topics: arrangements for unveiling by Prince of Wales; invitations to Commissioners and official guests; with acceptances and refusals; arrangements for press coverage of ceremony.
Date	6/5/1924 - 10/9/1924
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Content Note	Including:Letter from R. Kipling re arrangements for 'Morning Post' to report ceremony; 14 June 1924.Letter from Lord Derby mentioning proposed Anglo-French Somme memorial; 30 June 1924.Letter from F. Ware to Lord Stamfordham suggesting King send message to French President at ceremony; 1 July 1924.Letter from Ware mentioning presentation of decorations to Commission staff by Prince in Paris; 2 July 1924.Letter from Ware to newspaper editors and Lord Burnham stressing imperial co-operation represented by tablet; 3 July 1924.Letter from Lord Burnham to Ware re 'Daily Telegraph' report of ceremony; and reply; 9-10 July 1924.Letter to Secretary of State for War re reception of King's message in France; 10 July 1924.
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/2	Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission	1869-1949
DS/UK/61	Windsor [formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]; Edward (1894-1972); King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, Emperor of India, Prince of Wales, Duke of Windsor, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Saxony, and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; President of the Imperial War Graves Commission	1894-1972
DS/UK/62	Stanley; Lord; Edward George Villiers (1865-1948); 17th Earl of Derby; politician, racehorse owner, soldier, Secretary of State for War, British Ambassador to France, Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission	1865-1948

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