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Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/2/13
File Number	CCM3133
Title	Captain JOHN VINCENT ASPINALL and Lieutenant PAUL VICTOR DORNONVILLE DE LA COUR - ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL - Royal Air Force
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Description	File of correspondence concerning Lieutenant Paul Victor Dornonville de la Cour and Captain John Vincent Aspinall, who are both commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, France. Correspondence concerns the marking and recording of the graves believed to be of both men in Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No. 2 and with Lieutenant de la Cour's widow requesting for a photo of the grave which was sent and with his Danish father regarding the personal inscription on the headstone. Later correspondence concerns request in September 1922 for both graves to be exhumed as it was believed they had been wrongly attributed and were in fact of Lieutenant F.L. Mond and Lieutenant E.M. Martin of 57th Sqdn., RAF. The parents of Mond and Martin attended the exhumation and it was concluded that the graves were of Mond and Martin who were given headstones in Doullens whilst de la Cour and Aspinall were commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
Content Note	Includes: Handwritten letter from Mrs de la Cour (later Wills following remarriage) requesting for a photograph of her husband's grave, dated 30 August 1918; Copy of Request for authority to exhume form, dated 7 September 1922; Copy of letter to Mrs de la Cour regarding details of exhumation and that the grave originally attributed to her husband was incorrect, dated 26 September 1922; Handwritten letter from Mrs de la Cour regarding exhumation dated 11 February 1923; Copies of reports on special exhumation dated 22 March 1923; Latest correspondence is from relatives in 1937 and 1964 asking about commemoration of de la Cour.
Date	4/6/1918 - 11/12/1964
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Efiles
Cemetery_Name	ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL