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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/2/2/1/26
File Number
WG 1265
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.26 - Sep 1920
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Description
Finance committee business; despatch of wooden crosses to next of kin; work of concentrating isolated graves in France, Belgium, the Aegean and the Netherlands; inscription of ages of dead on headstones; commemoration of Indian dead in France and Belgium; Latin inscription re gift of cemetery land by state in Belgium; treatment of war graves in the Dominions; establishment of enquiry bureaux in France and Belgium to provide information about graves to visitors; recommendations of Battle Exploits Memorial Committee; treatment of graves in Serbia, Bulgaria and Rumania; staff appointments; membership of Anglo-Greek Mixed Committee; report by R. Kipling on visit to cemeteries in France; letters of thanks to Belgian local authorities for gift of cemetery sites; South African request to preserve small cemetery.
Date
19/8/1920 - 30/11/1920
Extent
1 file
Collection
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/4
Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet
1865-1936
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