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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/2/2/1/47
File Number
WG 1743
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.47 - Jul 1922
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Description
Report by Sir M. Fitzmaurice re storm damage to war crosses, and discussion of liability of Sir R. Blomfield as architect; finance committee business; report of committee on treatment of British graves in Germany; termination of army graves registration work in Iraq; return of wooden crosses to next of kin; recommendations of Battle Exploits Memorial Committee; inscriptions on tablets recording gifts of land for cemeteries; authorisation to consider tenders for construction of Indian cemeteries in Egypt; authority to Finance Committee to give final approval for contracts re Menin Gate; re-appointment of Secretary General, IWGC Canadian Agency; proposed membership of Anglo-Italian Mixed Committee; staff appointments; treatment of graves of crew of airship R 38 as war graves; retention of existing unit memorial within a Commission cemetery; measures to expedite work in France and Belgium; refusal of controversial personal inscription for headstone.
Date
5/7/1922 - 2/11/1922
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/7
Blomfield; Sir; Reginald Theodore (1856-1942); architect
1856-1942
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