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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/2/2/1/49
File Number
WG 1755
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.49 - Oct 1922
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Description
Finance committee business; approval of South African application for memorial site at Delville Wood; discussion re possible need to remove British graves from German cemeteries in Belgium; choice of form of cross for use in cemeteries in Iraq; discussion of designs by Sir J. Burnet for Jerusalem cemetery, for cross to stand in it, and memorial to missing; approval of Burnet's design for memorial to missing at Cape Helles; offer by Egyptian government to supply plants for British cemeteries free; approval of agreement with City of London Burial Board re Little Ilford cemetery; authority to consider tenders for headstone foundations in St. Sever cemetery; authority to consider tenders for further cemetery construction in France and Belgium; authority to proceed with construction of Arques la Bataille cemetery; membership of Anglo-Italian Mixed Committee; recommendations of Battle Exploits Memorial Committee; staff appointments; discussion re provision of photographs of cemeteries; publication of new cemetery registers.
Date
24/7/1922 - 20/12/1922
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/8
Burnet; Sir; John James (1857-1938); architect
1857-1938
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