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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/2/2/1/56
File Number
WG 1813
Title
COMMISSION MEETING NO.56 - Jun 1923
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Description
Finance committee business, with approval of designs for Aegean cemeteries, and reduction of prices for headstones; acquisition of site in St. Woolos cemetery, Newport; proposal to move Nieuport Bains Military Cemetery No.3; layout for names to be engraved on memorial to missing at Tyne Cot cemetery; architectural treatment of mass graves; recommendations of Battle Exploits Memorial Committee; approval of design for memorial tablet in French and Belgian cathedrals; choice of wording on special memorials referring to both British and Dominion dead; approval of Niederzwehren as a cemetery for concentration of graves in Germany; difficulty of purchasing graves in Germany due to currency fluctuations; membership Iraq War Graves Committee; choice of material to be used for headstones; staff appointments; regular dates for Commission meetings; approval of Commission contribution to Vimy Canadian memorial; proposal that Commission should exhibit at Empire Exhibition; authority for Anglo-Egyptian Committee to place contract for Egyptian Labour and Camel Transport Corps memorial; appointment of committee to consider methods of cemetery maintenance in France and Belgium; powers of Commission to act re enemy graves in League of Nations mandated territories.
Date
23/5/1923 - 12/11/1923
Extent
1 file
Collection
Archive
Category
Meeting Notes
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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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