Record

Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/1/153
File Number	AA48189
Title	Sergeant FRANCIS WILLIAM COURTNEY BOOTLE - OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY - Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Description	File of correspondence concerning the grave of Sergeant Francis William Courtney Bootle in Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Correspondence from Commission's Area Superintendent for Eastern Area, UK, regarding the loss of letters from the stone cross marking grave and the next of kin's request for a Commission headstone to be erected over the grave. Correspondence regarding erection of a Commission pattern headstone over Sergeant Bootle's grave and the next of kin's wish for no personal inscription to be engraved on the headstone. Correspondence regarding photographs of the Commission's headstone on the grave and sent to the casualty's next of kin.
Content Note	Includes: Copy letter from Ida Bootle (casualty's sister) consenting to the removal of the private memorial and the erection of a Commission headstone over the grave, dated 7 June 1955. Handwritten letter from next of kin expressing her wish for no personal inscription to be engraved on the Commission headstone erected over the grave, dated 24 July 1956.
Date	7/6/1955 - 14/11/1956
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Cemetery_Name	OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY