Content Note | Includes: Letter from Robert J. Doyle, brother of casualty, requesting the location of Reverend Doyle’s grave, and enquiring if any facilities would be afforded to relatives wishing to visit the cemetery, dated 8 May 1919; handwritten letter from Major General W.B. Hickie to the Major-General, Director-General, Graves Registration and Enquiries, regarding the reported burial location of Reverend Doyle with accompanying sketch map of Frezenberg Ridge, dated 1 November 1919; handwritten letter from Mrs. Lena Cumisky, sister of the casualty, to the IWGC enquiring about the location of his grave, dated 6 March 1920; Letter from the IWGC Principal Assistant Secretary informing Lena Cumisky that exhumations were carried out by Graves Registration Units in the reported area of Reverend Doyle’s initial burial, but were unable to locate his grave, dated 22 March 1920; handwritten letter from Lena Cumisky to the Graves Enquiry Bureau, Ypres, providing further information relating to the location of Reverend Doyle, including his burial alongside Private Meehand, dated 3 October 1920; copy letter from Mary Hancock requesting the burial locations of Second Lieutenant William Hancock, her brother, and Reverend Doyle, dated 3 October 1921; handwritten letter from Miss Elizabeth C. Logan to the IWGC Commissioner of Records providing further information relating to location of Reverend Doyle, including a sketch map of his reported burial site, dated 29 October 1922; handwritten letter from Miss E. Ettrick to the IWGC enquiring about the burial location of Reverend Doyle, dated 15 November 1922; internal note from the Registrar, Director of Records, regarding the correct commemoration of Reverend Doyle on the Tyne Cot Memorial, and not the Menin Gate Memorial, dated 29 March 1926; handwritten letter from W.A. Kieran to the IWGC Secretary requesting the location of Reverend Doyle’s grave, dated 18 July 1927; handwritten letter from Mrs. M.H. Benson requesting the location of war graves for soldiers of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and Royal Inniskillings Fusiliers, and whether there was any commemorative plaque or tablet dedicated to Reverend Doyle, dated 26 April 1959; letter from the IWGC Secretary to Mrs. M.H. Benson listing the cemeteries and memorials in Belgium in which members of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and Royal Inniskillings Fusiliers were commemorated, dated 30 April 1959; copy of handwritten letter from Mrs. Mary Adelaide McDonnell requesting information relating to Reverend Doyle and Captain William Redmond, dated 2 August 1971; newspaper clipping from The Guardian – London and Leicester Mercury reporting on the efforts of Belgian pensioner Denise Dael to locate the remains of Father Doyle, dated 12 November 1999 and 20 November 1999. |