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Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/1/108
File Number	AA40185
Title	Driver JOHN INGLIS - MOREUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLlED EXTENSION - Royal Field Artillery
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Description	File of correspondence concerning the original grave of Driver John Inglis in Jumel Communal Cemetery and his subsequent reburial and headstone in Moreuil Communal Cemetery Extension. Main topics include correspondence with Inglis’s father regarding the choice of personal inscription on the headstone and a request for a photograph and full particulars of the grave. Correspondence regarding the decision of the French government to remove all French graves in Jumel Communal Cemetery and the decision of the Commission to remove Driver Inglis’s grave and four other British graves into Moreuil Communal Cemetery Allied Extension.
Content Note	Includes: Handwritten letter from Inglis’s father regarding the choice of personal inscription on the headstone and requesting a photograph of the grave and details for a group of friends visiting the grave in the summer of 1921, undated. Internal note to Director of Records referring minute of 3 September 1934 referencing the enquiry files for Private Hayter (WW 4376), Private Gillingham (WW 5421), Driver Fellows (AA 47829) and Driver Inglis (AA 40185) in connection with the proposed removal of these graves for reburial in Moreuil Communal Cemetery Allied Extension, dated 4 September 1934. Letter from the Ministry of Pensions notifying the Commission of the last known address of Driver Inglis’s father, dated 8 October 1934. Copy letter addressed to Inglis’s father informing him of the reverent reburial of Driver Inglis, dated 25 September 1936.
Date	1/2/1921 - 25/9/1936
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Cemetery_Name	MOREUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLlED EXTENSION
ArchNote	File reference on original file cover is given as 'AA 62/40185'. Original file cover disintegrated. Repackaged by Michael Greet (Archive Assistant) on 25 February 2019.