| Content Note | Includes: Handwritten letter from W.H. Barnes, Chairman, British Legion Burnley Branch, on behalf of the brothers of the casualty, to the CWGC Director-General enquiring why a Commission headstone had not been erected on Private Mercer’s grave, dated 2 October 1965; letter from the CWGC Director-General to John Mercer, brother of the casualty, explaining that Private Mercer’s grave was marked by a private memorial, a kerb surrounding two grave spaces with inscriptions to three other people, and that the Commission was not able to undertake the maintenance of private graves or memorials, dated 15 December 1965. |