Record

Unique IDCWGC/8/1/4/1/2/540
File NumberCCM101787
TitlePrivate 2nd Class WALTER AMBROSE STERLING - SHANKILL GRAVEYARD - Royal Air Force
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DescriptionFile of correspondence concerning the grave of Private 2nd Class Walter Ambrose Sterling in Shankill Graveyard, UK. File contains one item regarding the Commission’s decision to allow the headstone marking Private Sterling’s grave to remain following the cemetery’s conversion into a Garden of Rest.
Content NoteIncludes: Letter from M. Campbell, CWGC Director-General, to W. Sterling, father of the casualty, regarding the Commission’s decision not to proceed with the commemoration of Private Sterling and six other soldiers buried in Shankill Graveyard on a special memorial in Belfast City Cemetery, and to allow the headstone marking their graves to remain in the cemetery after it was converted into a Garden of Rest, dated 5 May 1964.
Date05/05/1964
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryEfiles
Cemetery_NameSHANKILL GRAVEYARD
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