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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
11 - Pre-War Cemeteries And Graves In The Care Of The Commission
Unique ID
CWGC/1/1/11/6
File Number
WG 1500/1/19 PT.4
Title
Pre-War Cemeteries - Cathcart's Hill Cemetery
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Description
Main topics: reports and accounts re maintenance work from superintendent; difficulties in obtaining supplies and exchanging currencies; arrangements for repair of other British monuments in the Crimea; visitors to the cemetery; complaints about payment of wages by cemetery worker; arrest of superintendent by Soviet authorities; and arrangements for his replacement; destruction of cemetery and impossibility of restoring it.
Content Note
Including:Table of visitors to cemetery since 1929; with report; 4 Feb. 1935.Report from British Embassy; Moscow; re inspection of cemetery; with letter; 15 June 1935.Letter from caretaker re destruction of cemetery; 6 Aug. 1944.
Date
31/12/1934
Extent
1 file
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Category
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