Record

Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/1/218
File NumberAA60327
TitleGunner ROBERT HOARE - KANDAHAR FARM CEMETERY - Royal Field Artillery
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DescriptionFile of correspondence regarding Gunner Robert Hoare, originally recorded as being commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, until records were later corrected to reflect his burial in Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Main topics include correspondence with the next of kin regarding the location of the grave and arrangements to correct the Commission's records.
Content NoteIncludes: Letter from Mrs R Squire (formerly Hoare) requesting information about the location of Gunner Hoare's burial, dated 11 June 1949. Copy letter signed by Records Officer (SWD Branch) confirming that the incorrect date of death may have been accepted by the Commission under pressure from the nextof kin but that the files that may have proved this had since been destroyed, dated 13 August 1949.
Date11/6/1949 - 13/8/1949
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
Cemetery_NameKANDAHAR FARM CEMETERY
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