| Content Note | Includes: Handwritten letter from casualty's next of kin requesting for a photograph of the grave, with a sketch map showing the location of Flatiron Copse Cemetery on the reverse, dated 27 January 1918. Note from C. Matthews in France Area noting that the casualty's next of kin had visited Flatiron Copse Cemetery and requested that the wooden cross be preserved for her, dated 21 April 1923. Internal note recording that the headstone inscription and cemetery register forms had been received by the casualty's father and the next of kin had requested for the wooden cross to be returned to them, dated 3 July 1925. Handwritten letter from the casualty's next of kin requesting for a wreath of Haig poppies to be placed on the grave, dated 12 September 1934. Handwritten letter from casualty's next of kin praising the Commission's horticultural work and enquiring into the arrangements and supply of flowers in France and Flanders, dated 18 September 1936. Postcard from next of kin requesting for some holly taken from their garden to be placed on the grave of Second Lieutenant Capper, dated 4 December 1936. Handwritten letter from casualty's next of kin enquiring into the reasons for the poor condition of the wreath on Capper's grave when they visited the grave, dated 20 September 1937. Letter from Chief Administrative Officer in France to Vice-Chairman explaining that the British Legion had used yellow poppies in its last distribution instead of red poppies for political reasons, as red was associated with Communism, and that the yellow poppy wreaths did not last as long, dated 30 September 1937. Handwritten letter from next of kin explaining they were unaware yellow poppies were used and that they were glad that red poppy wreaths would be used in future, dated 6 October 1937. |
| Cemetery_Name | FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ |