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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/2/2/1/22
File Number
WG 984
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.22 - Apr 1920
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Description
Finance committee business; meetings of Mixed Committees, including discussion of treatment of German graves in British zones, and inspection of the three experimental cemeteries; deputation from ex-service organisations re condition of graves and preservation of inscriptions on wooden crosses erected by comrades of dead; increase in powers for Commission's Egyptian agency; arrangements for construction work in East Africa; motor transport for official visitors abroad; employment of British caretakers; change of title for Inspectors of Works; inscriptions on headstones; debates to be held on Commission's policy in House of Commons; recommendations of Battle Exploits Memorial Committee, and British graves at Arlington, USA; staff appointments; request from P. Cart de Lafontaine to design Carnoy Military Cemetery; numbers of unidentified bodies and decay of identity discs.
Date
9/4/1920 - 21/6/1920
Extent
1 file
Collection
Archive
Category
Archive
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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.
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Dates
DS/UK/17
Cart de Lafontaine; Henry Philip Leopold (1884-1963); Lt Col; architect
1884-1963
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