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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/2/2/1/53
File Number
WG 1776
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.53 - Feb 1923
Multimedia
Description
Criticism of Commission's policy of employing some non-British construction labour; finance committee business; appointment of new member of Anglo-Egyptian Committee; grant of grave sites by Danish church authorities, and Southend Corporation; approval of architectural treatment of war graves in Harefield Churchyard; approval of designs for cemeteries at Paris, and at Meerut Military Cemetery; authority to consider tenders for Hazebrouck communal cemetery; treatment of isolated graves and cemeteries, and of memorials to missing, in Asia Minor (Turkey); search for graves and acquisition of land in Iraq; staff appointments; reconsideration of site for Egyptian Labour and Camel Transport Corps memorial; approval of design for Taveta cemetery, Kenya; design of cemetery walls; approval of controversial personal headstone inscription. Notes for the Vice-Chairman re meeting include references to controversial personal headstone inscriptions proposed by relatives.
Date
5/2/1923 - 4/6/1923
Extent
1 file
Collection
Archive
ArchNote
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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