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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
    - 13 - Members Of The Commission Staff And Appointment Of Auditors.

Unique ID	CWGC/1/1/13/44
File Number	ADD 1/7/13
Title	Cart De Lafontaine; Col. H.P
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Description	Main topics: tracing British graves in French communal cemeteries; negotiations with municipal and church authorities and prefects re obtaining perpetual concession of graves and preventing exhumations; presentation of cemetery registers to mairies of communes; memorial tablet for Amiens cathedral; British contribution to Notre Dame de Lorette.
Content Note	Including: Letter from French provincial sanitary official re recognition of his work on military sanitation for the British during the war; 1 Mar. 1923. Correspondence with F. Ware re measures to raise morale of Commission staff in France; 27 Dec. 1924 and 8 Jan. 1925.
Date	3/12/1920 - 8/1/1925
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Archive
ArchNote	CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS BY AND TO LAFONTAINE.

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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/17	Cart de Lafontaine; Henry Philip Leopold (1884-1963); Lt Col; architect	1884-1963

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