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Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/1/63
File Number	AA32506
Title	Captain GERALD WYNTER BLATHWAYT - VENDRESSE BRITISH CEMETERY - Royal Field Artillery
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Description	Correspondence regarding burial of Captain Blathwayt in the garden of Chateau de Verneuil and request for a photograph of the grave. Further enquiry from mother asking about the grave with response from the Commission explaining delay in receiving reports from Grave Registration Units in the area. Further correspondence from father pressing for confirmation of the existence of the grave and its location. Correspondence regarding further investigation by graves registration personnel in 1921. Further corresondence with next of kin of Captain Blathwayt and next of kin of Captain Furse regarding attempts to identify their remains in relation to exhumation and reburial in Vendresse British Cemetery.
Content Note	Includes: Condition report and confirmation of visit to grave, signed by Lt. Col. Savage, dated 16 Oct 1919. Letter from casualty's father asking about reburial of Captain Blathwayt, requesting photograph of the grave and asking about bronze plaques sent to the next of kin, dated 21 May 1921. Letter from casualty's father detailing requested personal inscription, dated 4 Feb 1922. Exhumation report for Verneuil Chateau French Military Cemetery, dated 1924. Report on special exhumation, dated 1 Sep 1924. Form regarding erection of provisional cross over the grave of Captain Blathwayt in Vendresse British Cemetery, dated 28 Jul 1926. Black and white photographic print of a headstone in Moulins New Communal Cemetery, dated 15 Sep 1972.
Date	23/3/1917 - 30/7/1926
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Cemetery_Name	VENDRESSE BRITISH CEMETERY