| Content Note | Includes: Handwritten letter from John Byron, on behalf of Mrs. Neil Findlay, wife of the casualty, to Ian Malcolm, Enquiry Department for Wounded and Missing, British Red Cross Society, regarding concerns that the headstone marking Brigadier General Findlay’s grave in the churchyard at Courchamps would become worn and difficult to locate and her request to have the grave adequately marked, dated 29 May 1915; handwritten letter from Mrs. Findlay to the IWGC Secretary requesting permission to travel to France to visit Brigadier General Findlay’s grave, dated 30 March 1919; letter from Lieutenant-Colonel, A.A.G for Major-General, DGGRE, to the War Office stating that the land containing the grave of Brigadier General Findlay had been granted to his widow and that the grave was not to be removed from the churchyard, dated 8 January 1920; memorandum regarding request from Mrs. Findlay to be buried in Brigadier General Findlay’s grave, dated 23 April 1923; copy letter from the Mayor of Courchamps to the Secretary General, Anglo-French Mixed Committee, IWGC, stating that Brigadier General Findlay’s widow had not been buried in his grave, dated 27 July 1936; letter to Mr. W.P. Spens reporting on the condition of Brigadier General Findlay and eight other war graves in Courchamps Churchyard and suggestion that all graves be transferred to a British war cemetery to ensure their perpetual maintenance, dated 22 March 1937; handwritten letter from Mrs. A.P. Heneage, daughter of the casualty, to the IWGC permitting the transfer of Brigadier General Findlay’s remains to a Commission cemetery, and enquiring whether the granting of a perpetual concession in 1914 would affect the Commission’s ability to transfer the grave, dated 14 September 1937; handwritten letter from Mrs. A.P. Heneage to the IWGC enquiring what could be done with the private memorial marking Brigadier General Findlay’s grave, which was supposedly made of gunmetal, and whether it could be placed in the cemetery or in one of the chapels, dated 2 October 1937; rough sketch of the private memorial marking Brigadier General Findlay’s grave, dated 10 December 1937; four photographs showing the private memorial marking Brigadier General Findlay’s grave, supplied on 13 December 1937; letter from the IWGC Secretary to Mrs. A.P. Heneage explaining that the existing private memorial could not be re-erected on Brigadier General Findlay’s new grave, but could be melted down and used to join pieces of stone, and in particular the separate stones of which the Crosses of Sacrifice are connected, or as bronze fittings in other British war cemeteries, dated 8 February 1938; handwritten letter from Mrs. A.P. Heneage to the IWGC agreeing to the Commission’s proposed use of the private memorial, dated 18 February 1938; letter from the IWGC Secretary to Mrs. A.P. Heneage reporting that Brigadier General Findlay’s grave was moved from Courchamps Churchyard to Vailly British Cemetery in grave No. 53, Row A, Plot IV, dated 11 July 1938; Form F.V./1. relating to the erection of a Commission headstone completed by A.P. Heneage, undated. |