| Content Note | Topics discussed:
Apologies for absence
Sir Richard Hopkins
Mr Harold Neal
General Sir John Crocker
Sir William Halcrow.
Approval and amendment of 330th Commission meeting minutes
a) Remembrance Day 1950
b) Tour of war cemeteries in France and Belgium by the Hon. A.H. Dennett, M.L.A.
c) Gardener’s Wages – Claim by Transport and General Workers Union
d) Difficulties facing the Commission at Jerusalem War Cemetery.
e) Maintenance of War Graves in the United Kingdom
f) Messrs. A.W. Bain and Sons.
Extension of appointment of Secretary to the Commission
Mention that the Commission’s President H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester had approved the extension of the appointment of Brigadier Frank Higginson as the Commission’s Secretary.
Chief Administrative Officer, North-West European District
Mention of appointment of Major H.W. Foster as Chief Administrative Officer for North-West European District.
Report of the 375th Finance Committee meeting
Items 11 and 12 referred to construction in Australia.
Item 19 recommended the appointment of an Area Superintendent in West Africa.
Item 21 indicated that construction was progressing in Belgium.
Item 22 dealt with major maintenance repair work in France
Item 26 referred to the Imperial War Graves Endowment Fund Balance Sheet
Report of the 23rd meeting of the South African Agency
Refers to the report presented to the Meeting, with particular mention that the primary type of stone to be used in South Africa for headstones would be grey granite.
Memorials to the Missing – 1939-1945 – Land Forces- Campaign in France, Belgium and Holland
Mention that the Chairman would write to the participating governments regarding the matter of Memorials to the Missing of the 1939-1945 War Land Forces participating in the Campaign in France, Belgium and Holland 1939-1940.
Examination of sketch design for cemetery construction by Philip D. Hepworth, F.R.I.B.A., Principal Architect for North-West Europe, for Mook War Cemetery, The Netherlands.
Examination of sketch designs for cemetery construction by Louis de Soissons, A.R.A., Principal Architect for Italy and Greece, for Faenza War Cemetery and Arrow Route War Cemetery, Florence, Italy.
Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval
Discussion regarding replacement of Stone of Remembrance at Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval, as the previous one had disintegrated.
Purchase of stock – Battle Exploit Memorials
Resolution for the purchase of Treasury Stock to pay for the income for the maintenance of the memorials to the 43rd Division at Esquay-Notre Dame, France, and 6th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, at Anzio, Italy.
Items of interest
Ceremony on 18 September 1950 at Arnhem (Oosterbeek) War Cemetery to mark the anniversary of the airborne landings.
Wreath laying ceremony at Anzio (Beach Head) Cemetery on 22 September 1950.
Ceremony at Eindhoven General Cemetery on 18 September 1950.
Commemoration Service at El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.
Over 300,000 visitors to the cemeteries in the Commission’s North-West European District, including over 150,000 visitors to Arnhem Cemetery; Arranged visits to war graves overseas and in the United Kingdom.
Graves in Irish Republic
Refers to discussions with the Government of the Irish Republic regarding the placing of headstones on graves of 1939-1945 War in the Republic of Ireland.
Commonwealth-French War Graves Agreement
Refers to efforts to levy a tax in the clause of the agreement.
Date of next meeting scheduled for Thursday 21 December 1950 at 11:00am.
ATTENDEES:
Admiral Sir Martin Dunbar-Smith, V.C., K.C.B. (Vice-Chairman in the Chair)
J.P. Sigvaldason, Esq. (Representing the High Commissioner for Canada)
J.D. McAteer, Esq. (Representing the High Commissioner for Australia)
Major-General W.G. Stevens, C.B., C.B.E. (Representing the High Commissioner for New Zealand)
H.J. Neethling, Esq. (Representing the High Commissioner for South Africa)
W.B. England, Esq., M.B.E. (Representing the High Commissioner for India)
Captain J.T. Chopping (Representing the High Commissioner for Pakistan)
D.K. Malone, Esq. (Representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies)
A.B. Moore, Esq. (Representing the Minister of Works)
General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O.
Colonel The Rt. Hon. The Lord Wigram, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.S.I.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Herbert Ellissen, C.B.E.
Sir Patrick Spens, K.B.E., K.C., M.P.
ADVISERS:
Edward Maufe, Esq., R.A. (Chief Architect and Artistic Adviser)
Also in attendance:
W.H. Bunning, Esq. (Accompanying Mr McAteer)
A.G. Harper, Esq. (Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand)
F.C. Sillar, Esq., C.B.E. (Principal Assistant Secretary)
W.J. Chalmers, Esq. (Assistant Secretary)
R.W. Bateman, Esq. (Director of Works)
H.P.R. Foster, Esq., O.B.E. (Legal Assistant)
O.D. Holt, Esq. (Principal, Secretarial Branch) |