| Unique ID | CWGC/2/2/1/54 |
| File Number | WG 1794 |
| Title | COMMISSION MEETING NO.54 - Mar 1923 |
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| Description | Finance committee business; delegation of financial powers to Vice-Chairman; refusal by owners to grant possession of military plot in Arnos Vale cemetery Bristol to Commission; grant of site in Danycraig cemetery, Swansea; architectural treatment of isolated graves in communal cemeteries in France and Belgium; authority to place contracts for further headstones; discussion re proposed memorial to missing of flying services (RFC, RNAS, RAF); choice of sites for commemoration of Indian missing on Western Front, and appointment of H. Baker as architect for Neuve Chapelle memorial; approval of designs by Sir J. Burnet for Jerusalem, Ramleh and Haifa cemeteries; treatment of graves and memorials to missing in Asia Minor (Turkey); appointment of IWGC agency in Iraq; treatment of Indian cemeteries at Maktau and Taveta, Kenya, as permanent cemeteries; staff appointments; construction of cemeteries by direct labour in Aisne and Marne, France; authority to place contract for Villers Station cemetery; invitation to participate in French memorial at Notre Dame de Lorette; concentration of graves in Egypt from civilian to military plots; invitations to war memorial dedication ceremonies. |
| Date | 5/3/1923 - 25/10/1923 |
| 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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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/6 | Baker; Sir; Herbert (1862-1946); architect and author | 1862-1946 |
| DS/UK/8 | Burnet; Sir; John James (1857-1938); architect | 1857-1938 |