| Content Note | Includes: Copy of Extracts from Report by Director of Works on his visit to East Africa reporting that two private memorials, one of which belonged to Captain Rennie, were recommended for replacing, and that the cemetery was well kept and the headstones were in good condition, dated 30 June – 19 July 1963; letter from the Area Superintendent, East Africa Area, to the Director of External Relations and Records confirming that Captain Rennie’s grave was marked by a deteriorated private memorial, and that the laying of a chipping carpet in the cemetery was already underway, dated 1 June 1954; letter from M. Campbell, CWGC Director-General, to J.T. Rennie, father of the casualty, enquiring whether the Commission was permitted to replace the private memorial marking Captain Rennie’s grave with a standard headstone, dated 1 July 1964; note from the Records Officer regarding the undelivered letter sent to J.T. Rennie and decision to replace the private memorial marking Captain Rennie’s grave, dated 13 July 1964; two photographs of Captain Rennie’s grave, one showing the private memorial prior to removal, and the other showing the subsequently erected Commission headstone; letter from the Area Superintendent, East Africa Area, to the Regional Director, Southern Region, reporting that the private memorial marking Captain Rennie’s grave was removed and replaced with a Commission headstone, dated 30 November 1965. |