Record

Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/2/462
File NumberCCM101462
TitlePrivate ARTHUR FLATHERS - DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE) - Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
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CWGC_8_1_4_1_2_462 (CCM101462).pdf

DescriptionFile of correspondence regarding Private Arthur Flathers who is commemorated on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate), India. Main topics include: correspondence regarding request from next of kin for a photograph and information about the grave of Private Flathers; correspondence regarding the Commission’s decision to commemorate Private Flathers on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate).
Content NoteIncludes: Handwritten letter from B. Mullins, nephew of the casualty, to the IWGC requesting a photograph and information about Private Flathers’s grave, dated 15 October 1951; letter from F. Tyrrell, IWGC Secretary, to B. Mullins explaining that the Commission were unable to maintain cemeteries in the Nowshera and Peshawar districts, in which Private Flathers’s grave was located, and that it was decided to commemorate soldiers buried in these cemeteries, including Private Flathers, on the Delhi Memorial, dated 23 April 1952.
Date15/10/1951 - 23/4/1952
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryEfiles
Cemetery_NameDELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)
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