| Content Note | Includes: Copy letter from Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, to Fabian Ware regarding request for details of the burial location of Captain Seddon on behalf of the next of kin, dated 30 December 1918; Handwritten letter from Mr J.S. Seddon, brother of Captain Seddon, requesting for the repatriation of Captain Seddon's remains back to Australia on behalf of their mother, dated 31 December 1918; Handwritten letter from J.S. Seddon, Royal Field Artillery, notifying the Commission he had traced the location of Captain Seddon's grave himself and marked it with a cross, with a request for a photograph to be taken of it and sent to their mother, dated 19 September 1918; Letter from C. Knowles, High Commissioner for New Zealand, regarding next of kin's request for repatriation of Captain Seddon's remains and the cause of his death by an exploding shell, dated 5 December 1918; Copy of report by Major Charles Wilson, DADGRE, No. 3 Area, regarding the original grave location at Serre (57D. L. 25. a. 3.8.) and reburial into Hebuterne Military Cemetery, dated 15 April 1919; Copy letter from F.L. Stevenson to Sir Herbert Creedy, KCB, CVC, regarding next of kin's request to repatriate Captain Seddon's body to Australia, dated 4 July 1919; Copy of reply to Creedy from J.E. Talbot explaining French decree forbidding exhumation and repatriation of remains, dated 15 July 1919; TS. letter from Louisa Seddon, mother of Captain Seddon, requesting the Commission's permission to repatriate her son's body, dated 15 August 1919; Handwritten letter from Sir Thomas Mackenzie to Fabian Ware requesting Mrs Seddon be allowed custody of her son's body, dated 21 August 1919; Copy response from Ware to Mackenzie explaining conversation with Mrs Seddon and the forbidding of repatriation by a French decree, dated 4 September 1919; Copy letter from Ware to Mrs Seddon regarding her request to repatriate her son's body, dated 16 October 1919; Handwritten letter from Sir Mackenzie to Ware explaining Mrs Seddon had become ill and asking that her request for repatriation be granted, dated 23 March 1921; Copy note from Lord Stopford explaining his conversation with Mrs Dyer, sister of Captain Seddon, dated 11 April 1921; Note from Lord Arthur Browne reporting his conversation with Mrs Dyer, dated 1 July 1921; Copy letter from W. Massey to Sir Laming regarding Mrs Seddon's request, dated 12 August 1921; Handwritten letter from Mrs Dyer to Fabian Ware requesting an appointment, dated 17 September 1921; Copy letter from Ware to Mackenzie regarding Mrs Seddon's request for repatriation and the case of Mr Levitt whose son was buried in Damascus Military Cemetery (Plot D, Grave 113), dated 1 March 1922; Handwritten letter from Mr George Gray regarding particulars of grave of Captain Seddon, dated 24 February 1922; Copy letter from E.M. Biggs, Assistant Horticultural Officer for No 4. Area, regarding inspection visit of Seddon's grave, dated 9 August 1922; Handwritten letters from Captain Donne to Fabian Ware regarding Mrs Seddon's request and intent to petition Ramsay Macdonald on the matter of having her son's remains repatriated, date 3 July 1924 and 11 August 1924; Response from Ware to Captain Donne regarding Mrs Seddon's request and repatriation, dated 3 September 1924; Copy letter from Ware to A. Edgcumbe, Private Secretary to Secretary of State, regarding repatriation and two cases where Canadian soldiers' bodies were stolen from graves in France by the next of kin and taken back to Canada, dated 7 July 1926; Copy letter from Ware to the Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery, MP regarding Seddon's case and the debate in the House of Commons and other opposition regarding the Commission's policy, dated 9 February 1928; Handwritten letter from Mr J.B. Robertson enquiring into the grave locations for Captain Seddon, Brigadier General Brown, Captain Fred Brown, and George East of the 1 Hertfordshire Territorial Regiment, dated 5 June 1937; Handwritten letter from Mrs Bean regarding her visit to Hebuterne Military Cemetery and the condition of some of the headstones, dated 1 June 1939; Copy letter from E.A. Greenwood, Chief Inspector of Fabric regarding headstones in Hebuterne Military Cemetery and treatment with zinc silico fluoride in 1928, dated 19 June 1939; Copy letter from Austen Chamberlain to Sir Laming Worthington-Evans regarding Mrs Seddon's request for repatriation of her son's body, dated 5 August 1925; Copy letter from Ware to Mr Earl regarding Mrs Seddon's request, dated 18 August 1925; Small black and white photographic print of Seddon's grave with wooden cross and fence in Hebuterne Military Cemetery with pencil inscription on the back 'I planted a rose tree at each corner in front', c. 1920s. |
| Cemetery_Name | HEBUTERNE MILITARY CEMETERY |