Content Note | Includes: Letter from Mrs. J.W. Fifield, granddaughter of the casualty, to the IWGC regarding the removal of the private memorial and kerb marking the grave of Private Reeves and his wife without the family’s consent or knowledge, received by the Commission on 24 October 1956; letter from the IWGC Secretary to Mrs. J.W. Field offering to erect a Commission headstone on Private Reeves’s grave and option to add a personal inscription, dated 1 November 1956; letter from Mrs. J.W. Field to the IWGC agreeing to the erection of a Commission headstone, enquiring whether the headstone would also commemorate Private Fifield’s wife, who was also buried in the grave, and outlining the desired inscription, dated 13 December 1956; letter from N. Dean, IWGC Secretary, to Mrs. J.W. Field enquiring whether the cross could be omitted from the headstone to accommodate for the inscription commemorating Private Fifield’s wife, dated 31 December 1956; letter from Mrs. J.W. Field to the IWGC agreeing to the omission of the cross, dated 5 February 1957; letter from A.R.C. Prentis, IWGC Secretary, to Mrs. J.W. Field regarding the erection of the headstone commemorating Private Reeves and his wife, dated 9 June 1958. |