Record

Unique ID	CWGC/1/1/12/4
File Number	WG 10/2
Title	Mr J.J. Lawson
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Description	Main topics: choice of Commissioner to replace H. Gosling; appointment of Lawson as Commissioner; appointment as Secretary of State for War and ex officio chairman; obituary.
Content Note	Including: Letter from J. Ramsay MacDonald re appointment of Commissioner; 31 Oct. 1930. Letter from C. Attlee recommending two candidates; 1 Nov. 1930. Letter from F. Ware to Attlee re proposed service at opening of Imperial Conference; and poem by R. Kipling; 3 Nov. 1930. Letter from Kipling approving appointment of Lawson; 20 May 1931. Note by Ware of conversation with Lawson; mentioning discussion of repatriation of bodies of World War 2 dead; 30 Aug. 1945.
Date	31/10/1930 - 16/12/1965
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Archive
ArchNote	FILE SUBSEQUENTLY RE-NUMBERED COM/1/2.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/4	Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet	1865-1936
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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