| Content Note | Includes: Letter from the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries (DGRE) requesting the burial location of Second Lieutenant Henderson with reply from R. Henderson, father of the casualty, stating that he was buried in St. Nicholas Cemetery in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the same grave as his other son, Sergeant H.G. Henderson, dated 1 July 1919 and 3 July 1919; letter from R. Henderson to the IWGC requesting the removal of the two Commission headstones erected over the grave of Second Lieutenant Henderson and Sergeant Henderson as the family intended to purchase the ground and use it as a family burial place, dated 6 July 1924; letter from Cecil Ramage, Liberal Candidate and Late Member for Newcastle West Division, on behalf of R. Henderson, to the IWGC requesting the removal of the Commission’s headstones, dated 24 October 1924; copy letter from the IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary to Cecil Ramage agreeing to the removal of the headstones, dated 18 November 1924; handwritten letter from R. Henderson to the IWGC enquiring why the headstones had not yet been removed, dated 16 February 1925; letter from the IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary to R. Henderson explaining that instructions had been issued to the contractor to remove the headstones an earlier date and that this would be done as soon as possible, dated 24 February 1925; copy letter from A.R.C. Prentis to Mr. Henderson enquiring whether the Commission was permitted to erect two standard headstones on the unmarked grave of Sergeant Henderson and Lieutenant Henderson with a personal inscription commemorating their parents, who were also buried in the same grave, dated 26 June 1964. |
| Cemetery_Name | NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (ST. NICHOLAS) CEMETERY |