Record

Unique IDCWGC/2/2/1/67
File NumberWG 1831/9
TitleCOMMISSION MEETING NO.67
Multimedia

c1\7260d8-8c0f-4228-9f52-20ca864314a7.pdf

DescriptionFinance committee business; approval of proposal to commission mosaic design from R. Anning-Bell for interior of memorial chapel, Jerusalem cemetery; rejection of proposal to use small cross designed by Sir J. Burnet in small UK cemeteries; request by Sir R. Blomfield that Commission should persuade Ypres authorities to revise building line in street approaching Menin Gate; authority to place contracts for further headstones; gift of land for cemetery by Indian in East Africa; architectural treatment of Indian cemeteries in East Africa where position of graves was unknown, and design for central memorial by Sir E. Lutyens; site for commemoration of Indian Merchant Navy personnel; arrangements for registration of graves and erection of headstones in Persia (Iran); decision to erect separate memorial to those missing in Asia Minor (Turkey); treatment of Indian cemeteries in Iraq; staff appointments; approval of designs for commemorative plaques on Egyptian Labour and Camel transport Corps memorial, paid for by those units; revision of staff rates of pay; commemoration of British war dead by Swiss Caribineers, Vevey; public lecture by F. Ware; publication and sales of cemetery registers; decorations awarded to Commission staff.
Date23/5/1924 - 3/10/1924
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
ArchNotePlease 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.

Show related Persons records.

Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/5Lutyens; Sir; Edwin Landseer (1869-1944); architect1869-1944
DS/UK/7Blomfield; Sir; Reginald Theodore (1856-1942); architect1856-1942
DS/UK/8Burnet; Sir; John James (1857-1938); architect1857-1938
DS/UK/2Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission1869-1949
Add to My Items