Content Note | Includes: Typed letter from Edward Theodore Wise, father of the casualty, requesting information about the location of the grave, undated; letter from T.J.B., IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary, to Edward T. Wise explaining that no definite information identifying the location of the grave was obtained, but that it was the Commission’s intention to erect memorials commemorating the names of soldiers whose bodies could not be found, dated 8 April 1924; handwritten letter from Edward T. Wise to the IWGC Secretary enquiring about a memorial stone dedicated to an unknown English Naval Lieutenant erected at a cemetery near Nieuwpoort, Belgium, which was thought to possibly contain the remains of Lieutenant Wise, dated 4 August 1938; letter from the IWGC Secretary to Edward T. Wise confirming that the unknown Naval Officer buried in Ramscapelle Road Military Cemetery was Lieutenant Wise, dated 18 August 1938; handwritten letter from Edward Wise to the IWGC Secretary consenting to the erection of a headstone bearing his son’s particulars, and informing the Commission that the other unknown English Naval men buried in the cemetery may have been under the command of and killed alongside Lieutenant Wise, dated 21 August 1938. |
Cemetery_Name | RAMSCAPPELLE ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY |