| Content Note | Includes: Handwritten letter from Mr R R Roberts, asking for the location of Brigadier General Gough's grave in preparation for a visit to the cemeteries in France, 24 June 1959; letter from the Director of External Relations and Records to the Regional Director, Northern Region, explaining that Mrs Diana Pym, the casualty's daughter, had telephoned on 4 April 1962 to ask if the ashes of her mother, Lady Dorothea Agnes Gough, could be interred in his grave, and had been told there would be no objection, 5 April 1962; letter from the CWGC Director General to Mrs Pym, confirming that she was allowed to bury her mother's ashes in the grave, provided there was no formal ceremony or publicity, 17 April 1962; letter from the Regional Director to the Director General, pointing out that the date suggested by Mrs Pym, a Saturday, coincided with the Annual Reunion held in Ypres, and in any case gardening staff were not authorised to work overtime, 29 June 1962; letter from the Director of External Relations and Records to the Regional Director, stating that at such short notice it would be inconvenient for Mrs Pym to change her plans and the Commission must help her, 5 July 1962; note from the Regional Director to the Director General, informing him that Mrs Pym had been met at Estaires Communal Cemetery by the Area Superintendent on 22 July 1962 and the interment of her mother's ashes had taken place, 3 August 1962. |