| Content Note | Topics discussed:
Approval, signing and amendment of the 374th Commission meeting minutes:
a) Jerusalem War Cemetery
b) Chief Administrative Officer, North-West European District
c) Unveiling of the Alamein Memorial
d) Remembrance Day.
Report of the 419th Finance Committee meeting
Item 1 dealt with the Accounts of the Commission for the year ended 31st March 1954.
Item 2 concerned the construction of Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Groesbeek Memorial.
Item 3 referred to a small wall proposed by the Chairman following his recent visit to Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery which he felt was necessary to complete the design of the cemetery.
Item 8 dealt with the provision of headstones for Czechoslovak graves other than those in Brookwood Military Cemetery.
Item 9 dealt with the manufacture in Cairo of synthetic headstones.
Item 10 referred to stonework in Heliopolis War Cemetery.
Item 12 referred to construction and maintenance work in West Africa.
Item 13 referred to a write-off in connection to a theft from the Commission’s stores in Egypt in the form of three-quarters of a mile of water piping.
35th Annual Report
Mentions that a draft of the 35th Annual Report of the Commission had been circulated to Members.
Examination of sketch design by Sir Hubert Worthington, A.R.A., Principal Architect for North Africa, for Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria.
Examination of sketch design by Graham Lewis, A.R.I.B.A. for Yaba Cemetery, Lagos, Nigeria.
Examination of sketch design by Graham Lewis, A.R.I.B.A. for Ibadan Military Cemetery, Nigeria.
Regional Offices, Eastern Region, United Kingdom
Resolution granting authority to Joseph Francis Flynn, Inspector, Eastern Region, to sign on the Commission’s behalf, the Tenancy Agreement for the occupation of premises in the Government Offices, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, at an annual rent of £62.15.0d. for use as the Regional Offices of the Commission.
Progress report for the quarter ended 30 September 1954
Response from Assistant Secretary W.J. Chalmers, Esq., C.B.E. to a question from Sir Patrick Spens, O.B.E., Q.C., M.P. regarding establishments and staff.
Presentation of British Empire Medals
Mentions that General Sir John Crocker had presented the British Empire Medals awarded in the Birthday Honours to Mr. S.J. Haley, Head Gardener at Zillebeke, and to Mr J. Patience, Head Gardener at Armentieres.
Gift of carved wooden box from the Maori People of New Zealand
Mentions that following the unveiling of the Alamein Memorial Lieutenant-Colonel C. Bennett, D.S.O., a former Commanding Officer of the New Zealand Maori Battalion, had asked the Chief Administrative Officer of the District to accept a wooden box adorned with Maori carving as a gift of appreciation from the Maori people for how the Commission kept Maori war graves.
Vice-Chairman's tour of North Africa
Summary of tour of North Africa by the Vice-Chairman Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O..
Salerno War Cemetery
Refers to reports of floods in the Salerno District, but that no damage had been reported at Salerno War Cemetery or any other cemeteries containing war graves in the district.
Film lecture at The Hague
Refers to a film lecture delivered by the Principal Assistant Secretary F.C. Sillar, Esq., C.B.E. at The Hague, The Netherlands on 26 October 1954.
Negotiations with the German Federal Government
Summary of progress of negotiations with the German Federal Government following visit to Bonn by the Principal Assistant Secretary F.C. Sillar, Esq., C.B.E..
Date of next meeting scheduled for Thursday 16 December 1954 at 11:00am.
ATTENDEES:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O. (Vice-Chairman in the Chair)
Frederic Hudd, Esq., C.B.E. (Representing the High Commissioner for Canada)
E. McCarthy, Esq. C.B.E. (Representing the High Commissioner for Australia)
J.G Hale, Esq. (Representing the High Commissioner for New Zealand)
C.H. Torrance, Esq. (Representing the High Commissioner for South Africa)
T.K. Nandi, Esq. (Representing the High Commissioner for India)
Captain M. Jan (Representing the High Commissioner for Pakistan)
D.K. Malone, Esq., M.B.E. (Representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies)
A.B. Moore, Esq. (Representing the Minister of Works)
Admiral Sir Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, V.C., K.C.B., D.L.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Patrick Spens, O.B.E., Q.C., M.P.
George Sylvester, Esq., M.P.
General Sir Harold Campbell, G.C.V.O., D.S.O.
ADVISERS:
Sir Edward Maufe, Esq., R.A., F.R.I.B.A. (Chief Architect and Artistic Adviser)
SECRETARY:
F. Higginson, Esq., C.B., C.M.G.
Also in attendance:
F.C. Sillar, Esq., C.B.E. (Principal Assistant Secretary)
W.J. Chalmers, Esq., C.B.E. (Assistant Secretary)
Major-General J.F.D. Steedman, C.B.E., M.C (Director of Works)
H.L. Simmons, Esq. LL. B (Legal Adviser)
O.D. Holt, Esq., (Principal, Secretarial Branch) |