Record

Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/2/185
File Number	CCM61261
Title	Private BENJAMIN WILLIAM BURTON - ST. PANCRAS CEMETERY - Royal Defence Corps
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Description	File of correspondence concerning the grave of Private Benjamin William Burton in St. Pancras Cemetery, UK. Main topics include: correspondence regarding the neglected condition of war graves in the cemetery, including that of Private Burton, and the Commission’s decision to remove and re-erect all headstones in the service plot owing to the cemetery authority’s intention to level the plot in which these graves were located.
Content Note	Includes: Copy letter from A.W. Burton, son of the casualty, to the IWGC regarding the dilapidated condition of war graves in St. Pancras Cemetery, dated 30 September 1949; letter from F. Tyrrell, IWGC Secretary, to A.W. Burton regarding the Cemetery authority’s intention to level the plot in which Private Burton and other soldiers were buried and the Commission’s decision to remove and re-erect the headstones in the cemetery’s service plot with an inscription setting out the reasons for their removal, dated 12 November 1949.
Date	30/9/1949 - 12/11/1949
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Efiles
Cemetery_Name	ST. PANCRAS CEMETERY
ArchNote	Original file destroyed.