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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/1/1/13/87
File Number
ADD 1/1/141
Title
Remembrance Service - BBC Radio
Multimedia
Description
Main topics: Armistice Day broadcasts by F. Ware and J. Smuts; with press responses.
Content Note
Including:TS. copies of F. Ware's broadcasts for 1926; 1928-30; 1933-34..TS. copy of broadcast by head gardener R. Brook of Etaples; with introduction by Ware; 1935.Letter from Ware to J. Reith; 16 Nov. 1926.MS. letter and pr. leaflet from E. Boscawen; containing poem re Etaples cemetery; 7 Nov. 1927.Pr. booklet by F. Ware; 'Their Name Liveth For Evermore'; London; 1927; 6pp.'The Listener'; 13 Nov. 1929.'World Radio'; Vol. XVII; No.434; 17 Nov. 1933.File: Broadcast by General Smuts; containing TS. correspondence with J. Smuts; R. Kipling; High Commissioner for Australia; and BBC officials; with draft speech; re speaker to stand in for F. Ware on Armistice Day 1934; and re preparation of speech.
Date
1/1/1926 - 31/12/1935
Extent
1 file
Collection
Archive
Category
Archive
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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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