| Content Note | Includes: Letter from the IWGC Director of Records to the IWGC Enquiries Department requesting the Vice-Chairman’s approval for the exhumation and removal of Staff Serjeant Pearson’s remains to Montreuil-aux-Lions British Cemetery, dated 3 November 1922; Authority for Examination form concerning the grave of Staff Serjeant Pearson, dated 3 November 1922; letter from the Secretary General, Anglo-French Mixed Committee, to IWGC Assistant Director of Records concerning the proposed transfer of Staff Serjeant Pearson to Chateau Perreuse Military Cemetery and the French Ministry’s intended removal of all graves to the National Cemetery of Chambry, dated 14 December 1922; letter from C. Reed, on behalf of Lord Cowdray, nephew of the casualty, to the IWGC Secretary enquiring whether the Commission was able to make arrangements for the maintenance of the private memorial erected on the Staff Serjeant Pearson’s original burial location in 1923 after the transfer of his remains to Montreuil-aux-Lions British Cemetery, dated 7 June 1956; letter from the IWGC Secretary to C. Reed suggesting that the relatives of Staff Serjeant Pearson contact the Maire of Varreddes to ask if arrangements could be made for the maintenance of the private memorial, dated 19 June 1956; letter from Gerald Gliddon to the CWGC and reply from Jackie Withers, Enquiries Section, regarding request for details of the initial burials of Staff Serjeant Pearson, Major H.F. Crichton, and Lord Thomas Carew Kesteven, dated 8 - 22 May 2001. |
| Cemetery_Name | MONTREUIL-AUX-LIONS BRITISH CEMETERY |