Record

Unique IDCWGC/1/1/16/1
File NumberWG 111/1
TitleFrench Unknown Soldier
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CWGC_1_1_16_1.opt.pdf

DescriptionMain topics: ceremonial acts by Commission staff; British; Dominion and USA participation in French remembrance ceremonies; arrangements for wreath-laying on other occasions; proposals for monuments to French and British unknown soldiers at Brussels; importance of wreath-laying in Commission's relations with France and Belgium; placing British Legion poppies on British graves; sounding Last Post at memorials; press publicity re wreath-laying.
Content NoteIncluding letter from A. Ingpen describing IWGC wreath-laying activity in France and Belgium (1920-30); 28 Nov. 1930.
Date21/11/1923 - 23/11/1932
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive

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DS/UK/50Ingpen; Arthur Lockyer (1877-1952); Major; barrister, soldier, Commission’s Legal and Land Adviser in France and Belgium, Secretary-General of the Anglo-Belgian Mixed Committee, Secretary-General of the Anglo-French Mixed Committee1877-1952
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