| Content Note | Includes: Letter from F.S. Lambert, Administrator, 4th Northern General Hospital, to the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries (DGRE) reporting that Second Lieutenant Garnett was buried in Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery in grave D.417, dated 6 February 1919; letter from the IWGC Director of Records to the Enquires Department stating that Second Lieutenant Garnett was an American citizen, but served as an English Officer of the Royal Flying Corps, and that his grave was considered a British war grave, dated 8 February 1932; letter from Henry Wheeler, on behalf of his wife and sister of the casualty, Mrs. Carole Garnett Wheeler, to W.J. Chalmers, IWGC Secretary, requesting permission to exhume and repatriate the remains of Second Lieutenant Garnett to the United States, dated 29 August 1959; letter from P.N. Dolan, IWGC, to Mrs. C.G. Wheeler explaining that an application to obtain a permit to repatriate Second Lieutenant Garnett’s remains would have to submitted through the Secretary of State for the Home Department and Embassy of the United States of America, dated 4 September 1959; letter from the Regional Director, UK Region, to the Director-General, CERO, reporting that the exhumation of Second Lieutenant Garnett’s remains took place on 24 February 1960 by the Lincoln Co-operative Society Funeral Service and that the remains were subsequently cremated and despatched to America, dated 1 March 1960. |
| Cemetery_Name | NEWPORT (ISLAND) CEMETERY |