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Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/2/305
File NumberCCM81977
TitleMajor STANLEY LIVINGSTON JONES - MOORSEELE MILITARY CEMETERY - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
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DescriptionFile of correspondence concerning the grave of Major Stanley Livingston Jones in Moorseele Military Cemetery, Belgium. Main topics include: correspondence concerning the repeated attempts to contact next of kin regarding the proposed replacement of the private memorial marking Major Jones’s grave with a Commission headstone; correspondence from next of kin consenting to the erection of a Commission headstone; correspondence regarding the transfer of Major Jones’s grave from the German plot to the British plot in Moorseele Military Cemetery; correspondence regarding the disposal of the private memorial previously marking Major Jones’s grave.
Content NoteIncludes: Sketch drawing of the private memorial marking Major Jones’s grave, dated 5 July 1923; letter from the IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary to Mrs. Lucile R. Jones, widow of the casualty, enquiring whether the Commission was permitted to replace the private memorial marking Major Jones’s grave a standard headstone, dated 27 July 1923; letter from Mrs. Lucile R. Jones to the IWGC Secretary consenting to the replacement of the private memorial with a Commission headstone, and enquiring what was to become of the private memorial and whether the grave was to be moved from Moorseele Military Cemetery, dated 9 February 1925; letter from the IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary to Mrs. L.R. Jones stating that the body of Major Jones was moved from the German plot in Moorseele Military Cemetery the British plot in Row AA, Grave 12, and enquiring how she wished to dispose of the private memorial previously marking his grave, dated 8 September 1926; copy of internal correspondence between Mr. Lowe, Mr. Greene, the Principal Assistant Secretary, and Mr. Oatham regarding the proposed storage of the personal memorial for one year of until a decision regarding the memorial made by Major Jones’s next of kin before it was disposed, dated 8 July 1930 – 6 August 1930.
Date5/5/1923 - 6/8/1930
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryEfiles
Cemetery_NameMOORSEELE MILITARY CEMETERY
ArchNoteRepackaged by Michael Davis (Trainee Archivist) on 6/12/2019.
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