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Unique ID	CWGC/8/1/4/1/2/376
File Number	CCM93468
Title	Captain MALCOLM LYLE WAINE - RUISLIP (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION - Canadian Army Service Corps
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Description	File of correspondence concerning the grave of Captain Malcolm Lyle Waine in Ruislip (St. Martin) Churchyard, UK. Main topics include: correspondence with the family through Canadian Agency concerning the delay in replacing the original wooden cross with a permanent headstone; dealing with a complaint from the casualty's widow that the grave was in a deplorable condition when she visited seeking assurance that care would be taken of a rose bush she had planted on it; explanation of the difficulties faced by the Commission in arranging for headstones to to be erected on war graves scattered in cemeteries and churchyards around the UK and arranging for their maintenance; the family's further distress on discovering a further burial of another serviceman had been made in the same grave in 1932; clarification of the legal situation in this connection; notes of subsequent communication with the casualty's brother-in-law who had expressed indignation at the condition of the grave on revisiting it in 1958 expressing a desire for the grave to be in-filled with stone chippings, for which he was advised the vicar's approval would be required.
Content Note	Includes: Exchanges of letters with Canadian Agency dealing with the family's concern over the delay in replacing the original wooden cross with a permanent headstone; further internal exchanges dealing with a complaint from the casualty's widow that the grave was in a deplorable condition when she visited seeking assurance that care would be taken of a rose bush she had planted on it; lengthy letter from Arthur Browne to Colonel Osborn explaining the difficulties faced by the Commission in arranging for headstones to to be erected on war graves scattered in cemeteries and churchyards around the UK and arranging for their maintenance; internal correspondence dealing with the family's further distress on discovering a further burial of another serviceman had been made in the same grave in 1932; clarification of the legal situation in this connection; notes of subsequent communication with the casualty's brother-in-law who had expressed indignation at the condition of the grave on revisiting it in 1958 expressing a desire for the grave to be in-filled with stone chippings, for which he was advised the vicar's approval would be required.
Date	11/12/1926 - 29/1/1958
Extent	1 file
Collection	Archive
Category	Efiles
Cemetery_Name	RUISLIP (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION