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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

Unique ID	CWGC/1/1/1
Title	The Prehistory of the Commission
Description	The items in this section are folders containing TS. corrspondence and reports. They are principally concerned with the registration of soldiers' graves during the First World War by Red Cross and, later, by Army units led or directed by Fabian Ware; also arrangements for the acquisition of burial sites, and post-war care of graves.
Date	1909 - 08/10/1935
Extent	44 files
Collection	Archive

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Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/2	Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission	1869-1949

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