Record

Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/2/317
File NumberCCM83105
TitleSecond Lieutenant WAYNE HART MOORE - BROOKWOOD CEMETERY - Royal Air Force
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DescriptionFile of correspondence concerning the grave of Second Lieutenant Wayne Hart Moore in Brookwood Cemetery, UK. Main topics include: correspondence regarding request from next of kin to transfer the remains of Second Lieutenant Moore from Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery to the American plot in Brookwood Cemetery; correspondence regarding the Commission’s approval to transfer the remains and subsequent arrangements with the American Graves Registration Service and British Home Office; correspondence regarding four additional American burials in Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery in which the relatives refused to concentrate the graves at Brookwood; correspondence regarding the exhumation and reburial of Second Lieutenant Moore in Brookwood Cemetery.
Content NoteIncludes: Handwritten letter from Mrs. W.H. Moore, mother of the casualty, to the IWGC requesting permission to transfer the remains of Second Lieutenant Moore from Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery to the American plot in Brookwood Cemetery, dated 13 August 1923; letter from the IWGC to the Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, requesting that a license be issued for the exhumation of the remains of Second Lieutenant Moore, dated 3 January 1924; letter from William O. Smith, American Graves Registration Service Q.M.C. in Europe, to the IWGC stating that their service would carry out the transfer of Second Lieutenant Moore’s remains to Brookwood Cemetery, dated 8 October 1924; copy letter from Charles V. Russell, Caretaker, American Cemetery, to the IWGC informing the Commission that Second Lieutenant Moore was exhumed from Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery on 15 October 1924 and reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery on 18 October 1924 in Grave 16, Row 5, Block A, dated 23 December 1924.
Date13/8/1923 - 30/1/1932
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryEfiles
Cemetery_NameBROOKWOOD CEMETERY
ArchNoteRepackaged by Michael Davis (Trainee Archivist) on 6/12/2019.
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