| Content Note | Includes: Letter from Douglas R. Oliver to the IWGC Director of Works requesting information on the grave and background of Captain G.E.H. McElroy, dated 13 May 1958; letter from the IWGC Secretary to Douglas R. Oliver providing the names of Captain G.E.H. Oliver’s parents, and recommending that he contact the Air Ministry (A.R.9 Cas.) for further information, dated 28 May 1958; letter from Patrick J. Farrell to the CWGC Secretary enquiring whether there were conducted visits or tours of war graves in the Ypres salient with specific reference to the First, Second and Sixth Battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and graves of Captain Willie Redmond, a second cousin of his grandfather, J.J. Farrell, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Captain G.E.H. McElroy, also known as Ireland’s “Blue Max”, dated 17 August 1977; letter from Mrs. P.O. Wakefield to Patrick Farrell providing the names and locations of the cemeteries in which Major William H.K. Redmond and Captain G.E.H. McElroy were buried, and explaining that the Commission did not organise visits to war cemeteries or battlefields, dated 30 August 1977. |
| Cemetery_Name | LAVENTIE MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE |