Description | File of correspondence regarding the isolated grave and memorial of Lt. W.G.F. Welch, Royal Field Artillery, at Harenthage (Herenthage) Wood, Zillebeke. Main topics include discussion between Rev. H. S. Cochrane, cousin and last surviving relative of Lt. Welch, and the IWGC regarding the private memorial, the exhumation and reburial of Lt. Welch's remains in Ramparts Cemetery, the legal transfer of the land on which the private memorial was sited, and the transport an re-erection of the memorial lych gate from Zillebeke to Middleton. |
Content Note | Includes: authority for exhumation form W.G.R.1, 16th August 1955; exhumation report form, 8th November 1956; note from Rev. Cochrane with choice of personal inscription for new Commission headstone, 21st March 1957; newspaper cutting reporting on the dedication at Middleton Church of the lych gate original erected at the site of the private memorial to Lt. Welch in Harenthage Woods, 12th November 1957. |
Cemetery_Name | RAMPARTS CEMETERY, LILLE GATE |