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Foreign Office,
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Sir,
I have to inform you that the Imperial War Graves
Commission established by Royal Charter in 1917 for the
purpose of caring for the British graves of the Great War
have now received a Supplemental Charter empowering
them to care for the British graves of the present war.
The Commission have made arrangements for receiving
information about such graves from the present theatre of
war and from those countries with which they aro in direct__
touch. The Commission now desire the assistance of
British diplomatic representatives in other countries where
it is likely or possible that British serving officers or men
may be buried, or where the bodies of members of His
Majesty's Forces or of British merchant seamen who have
died as the result of enemy action at sea may be washed
ashore.        »- „——. /
2. I request therefore that you will ask the Govern-
ment of tho country in which "you reside'to notify you
without delay of any such burials or of the recovery of
bodies from the sea in the circumstances described. Such-
information as you receive should be transmitted to me for
communication to the Imperial War Graves Commission or
communicated direct, if you aro already in touch with the
Commission.
I am, with great truth and regard,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
HALIFAX.
His Majesty's Representative
at
(024/1940)
11033 21220—:
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