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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
    - 1 - The Prehistory of the Commission

Unique ID	CWGC/1/1/1/1
File Number	MU 1
Title	Narrative Letters And Reports
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Description	Main topics: reports on the development of the activities of the Red Cross Mobile Unit; relationship of ambulance to graves registration work; arrangements with British army; organisation of the Graves Registration Commission (GRC).
Content Note	Including: Letter from Ware to Red Cross Chief commissioner; Paris; re exhumation and reburial of British soldiers by French authorities; with report of party searching for graves; 17 Oct. 1914. Report from Mr. Broadley re grave marking by Mobile Unit; 27 Nov. 1914. Account of early operations of Mobile Unit with Belgian soldiers by Dr. R. Heddy; 6 Dec. 1914. Letter from Ware to Lord Milner re British Ambulance Committee; 21 Dec. 1914. Report of meeting of GRC staff re definition of duties and relations with French local authorities; with note of visit by Ware to Paris re French regulations about exhumation and relations with I. Malcolm; 29 Mar. 1915. Report by Col. Sir E. Stewart re Col. Barry's American Transport Unit; no date.
Date	23/9/1914 - 13/4/1915
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Archive
ArchNote	DOCUMENTS MAINLY BY OR TO F. WARE

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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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