| Description | File of correspondence concerning the grave of Private Edwin William Simpson in Pytchley (All Saints) Churchyard, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Correspondence concerns complaint received from next of kin over the condition of the grave and remedial work carried out by W.T. Cox & Co. to clean and re-erect the private memorial, repaint the letters, provide a new plinth, cover the area with flagstones and red granite chippings and to engrave "Simpson" on the side of the memorial. |
| Content Note | Includes: Copy letter from Mrs Edith McNary, sister of Private Simpson, to the Minister of National Defence in Ottawa, Ontario, explaining that her brother was wounded at Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917 and died in England on 30 May 1917 and expressing her anger at the twenty-eight cents given by the Canadian Government for the upkeep of the grave, dated 20 April 1959; |
| Cemetery_Name | PYTCHLEY (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD |