Record

Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/2/283
File NumberCCM77020
TitleEngine Room Artificer 3rd Class CHARLES EDWIN SPENDLOVE - PLYMOUTH (WESTON MILL) CEMETERY - Royal Navy
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DescriptionFile of correspondence concerning the grave of Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Charles Edwin Spendlove in Plymouth (Weston Mill) Cemetery, UK. Main topics include: correspondence with next of kin regarding the removal of the private memorial marking Engine Room Artificer Spendlove’s grave and its subsequent replacement with a Commission headstone.
Content NoteIncludes: Letter from A.R.C. Prentis, IWGC Secretary, to Charles Spendlove enquiring whether the Commission was permitted to erect a standard headstone on the grave of Engine Room Artificer Spendlove, which had been left unmarked after the private memorial became dilapidated and was removed, dated 2 October 1958; handwritten letter from Miss Marjorie Spendlove, sister of the casualty, to the IWGC Secretary accepting the Commission’s offer to erect a standard headstone and providing her choice for a personal inscription, dated 10 October 1956; letter from A.R.C. Prentis informing Marjorie Spendlove that a Commission headstone had been erected over Engine Room Artificer Spendlove’s grave, dated 23 April 1959.
Date2/10/1958 - 3/5/1959
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryEfiles
Cemetery_NamePLYMOUTH (WESTON MILL) CEMETERY
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