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Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/1/186
File NumberAA55585
TitleLieutenant VICTOR PARKER - LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY - Royal Field Artillery
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DescriptionFile of correspondence regarding the grave of Lieutenant Victor Parker in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. Main topics include correspondence concerning the private granite memorial erected by Lieutenant Parker's comrades in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery and correspondence addressed to the next of kin requesting permission to replace this memorial with a Commission pattern headstone. Correspondence with next of kin who did not wish to replace the private memorial and requested for the Commission to recut the inscription. Response from the Commission confirming it was not possible to carry out alterations or repairs to private memorials.
Content NoteIncludes: Extract from minute from Works to Principal Assistant Secretary confirming a granite headstone and base had been erected by Lieutenant Parker's comrades, dated 20 June 1925. Copy typed letter from Captain F.J. Trumble to the Principal Assistant Secretary referring to the sketches of private memorials erected for Regimental Serjeant Major H.T. Bunnet, Lieutenant Victor Parker, and Lieutenant J.M. Hazan in Lijjsenthoek Military Cemetery, dated 22 July 1925. Typed letter from Leonard F. Beylis, Secretary of the British Association, writing on behalf of Lieutenant Parker's widow Catherine Parker, requesting for the Commission to recut the inscription on the headstone which had reportedly become unreadable, dated 10 March 1932. Handwritten letter from Mrs Catherine Parker asking for the Commission to make the inscription on the private memorial legible as she often received photographs for when she sent wreaths to be placed at the grave, dated 18 March 1932.
Date20/6/1925 - 31/3/1932
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
Cemetery_NameLIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
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