| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/1/26 |
| File Number | GRC 1 |
| Title | Narrative Letters And Reports |
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| Description | Main topics: operations of Red Cross Mobile Unit and setting up Graves Registration Commission; termination of Unit's ambulance operations with French army; relations between GRC and Red Cross Enquiry Department for Wounded and Missing run by Lord R. Cecil and Sir L. Mallet; combination of ambulance work and graves registration by GRC sections; maintenance of British graves provided from Red Cross funds; transfer of GRC from Red Cross to Adjutant-General's department of British army; reports on work of GRC (including photography of graves) to Adjutant-General; payments to French local authorities for provision and marking of British graves; initial steps towards formation of a national committee for the care of soldiers' graves; negotiations with French government re provision of land for British graves. |
| Content Note | Including: Circular letter from I. Malcolm (for Red Cross) to French local authorities re perpetual concession of British military graves in communal cemeteries; 25 Feb. 1915. Correspondence re marking of Indian graves; 14 Apr. and 19 Aug.- 27 Sep. 1915. Correspondence with R. Cecil mentioning exhumation of Lt. W.G.C. Gladstone; 26 Apr. and 5 May 1915. Citations of French officials for British decorations in connection with provision of war graves; 23 Dec. 1915. |
| Date | 25/2/1915 - 29/12/1915 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
| ArchNote | DOCUMENTS MOSTLY BY OR TO F. WARE. |
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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 |
| DS/UK/54 | Gascoyne-Cecil; Lord; Edgar Algernon Robert (1864-1958); 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood;; statesman, lawyer, co-creator of the League of Nations | 1864-1958 |