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Unique ID	CWGC/2/2/1/78
File Number	WG 1831/20
Title	COMMISSION MEETING NO.78
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Description	Appreciation of Lord Milner's work with Commission, and his connection with Red Cross searches for wounded in 1914; finance committee business; proposals to place war crosses in small cemeteries of special historical interest; results of design competition for memorial to missing at Béthune, won by R. Truelove, assessed by Sir A. Webb; grant of site of war cross in Abney Park Cemetery; authority to place contracts for construction of further cemeteries; new members of Anglo-Egyptian Committee; staff appointments; publication and sales of cemetery registers; discussion of report by Sir F. Kenyon on cemetery and register box designs, including Etaples cemetery by Sir E. Lutyens; appointments of G. Ledward and E. Kennington as sculptors for memorials to missing at Cambrai and Soissons; proposal for memorial to commemorate Indian soldiers at Lazaretto Cemetery, Malta; grant of grave plots at St Pancras Cemetery, Finchley, and erection of tablet re fund raised by residents; appointment of G. Bayes as sculptor for memorial to missing at Jerusalem; decision to concentrate British graves in North Russia; commemorative tablet erected by residents of Romeries next to war cross.
Date	28/5/1925 - 2/12/1925
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Meeting Notes
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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Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/3	Kenyon; Sir; Frederic George (1863-1952); Greek and biblical scholar and museum director	1863-1952
DS/UK/5	Lutyens; Sir; Edwin Landseer (1869-1944); architect	1869-1944
DS/UK/32	Ledward; Gilbert (1888-1960); sculptor	1888-1960
DS/UK/33	Truelove; John Reginald (1886-1942); Captain; architect	1886-1942
DS/UK/35	Kennington; Eric Henri (1888-1960); artist, sculptor	1888-1960

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