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Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/1/164
File Number	AA50290
Title	Lieutenant DAVID DICKIE HOWIE - CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY - Royal Field Artillery
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Description	File of correspondence concerning the grave of Lieutenant David Dickie Howie in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. Main topics include correspondence notifying Director of Works that no personal inscription was chosen by the next of kin as a private memorial had been erected over the grave, correspondence to Messrs. Macrae, Flett and Rennie from the Commission advising that the private memorial was not very durable and would possibly require replacement with a Commission headstone, as well as correspondence concerning the next of kin's dissatisfaction with the personal inscription on the headstone and the erection of a replacement headstone. Further correspondence regarding arrangements to erect a new replacement headstone as a friend of Mrs Howie had visited the grave in 1943 and confirmed the details were not properly corrected.
Content Note	Includes: Completed IWGC form regarding the receipt of headstone inscription, cemetery register and "A" forms from the next of kin, stating no personal inscription received as a private memorial was already erected, dated 29 June 1922. Three headstone rubbings (charcoal or pencil) of the newly erected Commission headstone for Lieutenant Howie, undated. Copy inscription on headstone, dated 1937. Copy letter from Messrs Macrae, Flett and Rennie to the Commission on behalf of Mrs Howie expressing her dissatisfaction with the details inscribed on Howie's headstone, dated 3 March 1937. Copy of headstone layout for new artificial headstone to be erected and inscribed by J. Dimos Cairo to replace the old stone which bore an incorrect inscription, undated.
Date	22/6/1922 - 2/11/1944
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Cemetery_Name	CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
ArchNote	Original file cover disintegrated. Repackaged by Michael Greet (Archive Assistant) on 01/05/2019.