| Description | Minutes of the last meeting approved; unveiling of Cross of Sacrifice at Darwen, Lancashire; wreath laying on the Canadian plot at Brookwood Military Cemetery on behalf of American mothers of sons who had joined the Canadian Forces; attendance of Colonel Higginson at inauguration of memorial to the inhabitants of the town of Haussy killed during the war; mention of the laying of the foundation stone of the Australian National Memorial in Canberra; publication of agreed statement by British legion regarding placing of wreaths in war cemeteries abroad; report by Rudyard Kipling on his recent tour of cemeteries in Egypt and Palestine, mentioning in particular Assouan, Haifa, Port Said, Kantara, Ismailia, Tel-el-Kebir, Cairo, El Minya, Beersheeba, Jerusalem, Gaza, Deir-el-Belah, and referring to issues of horticultural and structural maintenance, and work of Colonel Hughes in region; Report of 176th meeting of the Finance Committee; Hull Cemeteries; Notre Dame de Lorette, Presentation of Windows; Educational Facilities for Staff Abroad; Unveilings of Memorials to the Missing; Staff of the Commission; Death of Mr Kett, Area Superintendent, Eastern Theatre. |