Content Note | Includes: Fragment of handwritten letter from Mr Malcolm, asking for any information about the grave of Second Lieutenant Malcolm and Captain Bell, 6 January 1919; request from Mr Malcolm and his brother for the Graves Registration Units to search the Ypres-Menin road for wreckage of the Malcolm/Bell aircraft and their graves, 30 April 1919; letter from Major Stopford, IWGC, to Mr Malcolm, informing him that wreckage was found but there was no trace of the two men's graves, 13 June 1919; confirmation from the Air Ministry that the wreckage found was not the same aircraft as the one Malcolm and Bell were flying, 14 June 1920; typed copies of letters from German soldiers who witnessed the aircraft shot down in 1918, dating from late 1920 to early 1921, with an accompanying letter from Mr Malcolm assessing and cross-referencing the letters, 8 February 1921; letter from Major Stopford to Mr Malcolm, informing him that with inconclusive evidence and no further leads it had not been possible to locate the graves, 27 October 1922; correspondence between Lord Arthur Browne, IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary, and Mr Malcolm, concerning the construction of the Flying Services Memorial at Arras, June 1923-February 1924; enquiries from Mr Malcolm as to the completion date of the Arras Flying Services Memorial, August and September 1928, and March 1930; order form from the War Graves Photograph and Wreath Association, based in Albert, France, enclosed in a letter from Mr Malcolm dated 23 September 1930; letter from Mr Malcolm asking for details of the arrangements to assist relatives to the memorial unveiling, 22 February 1932; letter from Mr Malcolm thanking the Commission for the circular and asking for two tickets, 13 April 1932; further typed copies of letters from German soldiers and a list of all sixty-nine letters received with comments on their reliability made by Mr Malcolm, undated [but presumably from late 1920-early 1921] and out of sequence. |
Cemetery_Name | ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL |