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CWGC - Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
8 - Casualty and Commemoration Records
1 - Casualty Archive
4 - Efiles
1 - First World War Efiles
1 - AA Efiles
Unique ID
CWGC/8/1/4/1/1/197
File Number
AA59837
Title
Battery Serjeant Major J. G. ROE - SHEFFIELD (CITY ROAD) CEMETERY - Royal Field Artillery
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Description
File of correspondence regarding the grave of Battery Serjeant Major J.G. Roe in Sheffield (City Road) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Main topics include correspondence from the next of kin notifying the Commission that the Commission headstone had not been reset properly when moved to make room for Battery Serjeant Major Roe's widow to be buried in the grave, and requesting for an additional recumbent marker on the grave to refer to her burial there. Response from the Commission requesting for an additional inscription to be added to the existing private permanent memorial over the grave with further reply from next of kin explaining they would erect a plaque over the grave.
Content Note
Includes: Typed letter signed by John George Roe, the son of Battery Serjeant Major Roe, requesting to place a recumbent stone marker on the grave to reflect his mother's burial in the same grave as his father, dated 18 June 1962.
Date
5/8/1933 - 12/9/1963
Extent
1 file
Collection
Archive
Cemetery_Name
SHEFFIELD (CITY ROAD) CEMETERY
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