| Description | Plan of the proposed treatment of the 5 communal graves at Tower Hamlets Cemetery, with a copy of the proposed memorial inscription ('this garden commemorates the lives of 190 people of Poplar who were among those killed in air raids in this Borough during the Second World War of 1939/1945 and whose mortal remains rest in this place').
Copy extracts from the Poplar Works and Markets Committee minutes of 8 July 1946, 9 September 1946 and 7 June 1948, regarding the maintenance of civilian war graves.
Correspondence between Poplar Borough Council and the Ministry of Health, Imperial War Graves Commission, etc; regarding civilian deaths due to war operations, procedure in cases of burial by the Local Authority, provisions for emergency mortuary services, and the maintenance of and provision of a memorial for the communal graves in Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
Pro-forma letter from Poplar Town Clerk informing relatives of civilian war dead of the new garden of remembrance laid out by the Council at Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow, in 1952.
Memorandum from the Poplar Borough Engineer to the Town Clerk regarding proposed memorial to civilian war dead in East India Dock Recreation Ground.
Copy letter from Poplar Town Clerk to Mr Musicka of East Barnet, regarding his sister Eleanor Clara Musicka, buried by the Council on 9 August 1944 in a communal grave in Tower Hamlets Cemetery, 26 August 1958. |