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CWGC - Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
2 - Governance and Corporate Planning
2 - Commission Meeting Minutes
1 - Commission Meeting Minute Files
Unique ID
CWGC/2/2/1/37
File Number
WG 1681
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.37 - Oct 1921
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Description
Finance committee business; ending of searches for and exhumation of isolated graves by DGRE, and circumstances in which further searches might be made by Commission; photographs of temporary wooden crosses ordered by next of kin; storm damage to war crosses, and suggestions for improvements in Sir R. Blomfield's design; arrangements for maintenance of cemeteries in Italy; appointment of chairman of Anglo-Egyptian committee; proposals for sites for commemoration of soldiers lost at sea; proposal to supply photographs of headstones to next of kin; apportioning responsibility for maintenance of war and non-war graves at Ramleh (Palestine) and Malta; proposal for concentration of British graves in Germany; treatment of British military graves in Ireland; proposals for national or imperial memorials at Jerusalem; request received for repatriation of body; use of word 'victim' on headstones.
Date
5/10/1921 - 29/1/1922
Extent
1 file
Collection
Archive
ArchNote
Please note that the downloadable document is the final version of the Committee Meeting minutes. Additional information, including the verbatim minutes and subsidiary reports, may be available in the physical file.
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Dates
DS/UK/7
Blomfield; Sir; Reginald Theodore (1856-1942); architect
1856-1942
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