Record

CWGC - Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- 2 - Governance and Corporate Planning
  - 2 - Commission Meeting Minutes
    - 1 - Commission Meeting Minute Files

Unique ID	CWGC/2/2/1/13
File Number	WG 585
Title	COMMISSION MEETING NO.13 - Jun 1919
Multimedia	$06\f93157-43e4-4969-a50b-124e2b0cfa43.pdf$
Description	Finance committee business; Sir F. Ware's acceptance of appointment as salaried Vice-Chairman; adequate labour found for work of graves concentration, and reports of desecration of graves; petition from Trades Union Congress; petition requesting non-uniform headstones, with proposal from Lord Balfour of Burleigh; circulation of pamphlet 'Graves of the Fallen'; financial position of Commission in relation to British Treasury; method for inscribing headstones; production of cemetery registers; refusal to contribute to cost of private headstones on war graves in UK; setting budget for cemetery construction in Italy; dealing with private memorials in Le Tréport cemetery; arrangements for return of wooden crosses to Dominions; Commission funds for Canadian graves in Russia; approval of sites for Australian memorials; Canadian requests for same privileges as Americans re repatriation of bodies. File also includes letter from Major Stopford to J.E. Talbot expressing personal opinions with regards to uniform headstones, views of members of the public, exhumation of remains and repatriation, dated 12 April 1919.
Date	10/6/1919 - 18/7/1919
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Meeting Notes
ArchNote	Please note that the downloadable document is the final version of the Committee Meeting minutes. Additional information, including the verbatim minutes and subsidiary reports, may be available in the physical file.

Show related Persons records.

Persons

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/55	Balfour; Lord; Arthur James (1848-1930); 1st Earl of Balfour; politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Foreign Secretary	1848-1930

Add to My Items

Historic Archive Part 1 - Work of the Commission in Connection with First World War Deaths

Historic Archive Part 1 - Work of the Commission in Connection with First World War Deaths

Commission Meeting Minutes

Commission Meeting Minutes

Cemetery Files

Architectural plans and drawings

Architectural plans and drawings

Explore Showcase