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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/2/2/1/25
File Number
WG 1144
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.25 - Jul 1920
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Description
Finance committee business; delegation of financial powers to Vice-Chairman; proposal to omit certain buildings from cemeteries in first priority programme of construction; authority to proceed with second priority programme; approval of war cross to be erected in Ostend cemetery; establishment of agencies of the Commission in Malta and Gibraltar; problems re membership of Anglo-Egyptian committee; requests received for despatch if wooden crosses to next of kin; payment for personal inscriptions on headstones; exhibition of models of war cross and war stone at Imperial War Museum; resolution re headstones received from National Council of Women; offer of gift of gates for Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery; decision of French parliament to allow repatriation of bodies; recommendations from Battle Exploits Memorial Committee; purchase of Delville Wood; staff appointments; design of headstones for multiple graves; cost of motor transport in France; designs for headstones in Gallipoli, Palestine and Iraq; departure of New Zealand High Commissioner; example of cemetery register for Forceville; subsistence allowance for Deputy Director of Works, East Africa; condition of cemetery at Jerusalem.
Date
2/7/1920 - 30/8/1920
Extent
1 file
Collection
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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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