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CWGC - Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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    - 16 - Ceremonies, Pilgrimages And Visits To Cemeteries

Unique ID	CWGC/1/1/16/9
File Number	WG 1544 PT.2
Title	HM The King Visit To France And Belgium
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Description	Main topics: arrangements for ceremony at Terlincthun cemetery and issue of tickets; arrangements for Dominion representatives to show graves to King at Etaples; distribution of tickets for ceremony; notes on cemeteries to be visited and work of the Commission prepared for royal visit; congratulations on success of royal inspection of cemeteries; proposal to publish book about visit ('The King's Pilgrimage'); F. Ware's thanks to those who assisted in arrangements; reports re various stages of the inspection of cemeteries; KCVO awarded to Ware; composition of text (with R. Kipling and F. Fox) and collection of illustrations for book
Content Note	Including: Letter from R. Blomfield re meeting King at Ypres, 7 May 1922. Letters from H. Benson re ceremony, 9 and 16 May 1922. Report of royal visit to Etaples cemetery and meeting with Dominion representatives, 13 May 1922. Report re presentation of book to King by St Barnabas Hostels, 26 May 1922. Letter from Ware to Kipling re manuscript copy of poem, 19 June 1922. Letter re stone commemorating King's visit to Notre Dame de Lorette, 11 Aug. 1927. 'Empire Fellowship' October 1928.
Date	6/5/1922 - 31/10/1928
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/7	Blomfield; Sir; Reginald Theodore (1856-1942); architect	1856-1942
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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