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The Next of Kin Memorial Plaque

The Memorial Scrolls

Next of Kin Memorial Scroll. (HU 53979)

I join with my grateful people in sending you this memorial of a brave life given for others in the Great War. George R.I.

The scrolls started to be manufactured in January 1919 (the original total estimate for scrolls by the Central School was 'about 970,000') and were sent out in seven and a quarter inch long cardboard tubes.

The plaques themselves were dispatched under separate cover in stiff card wrapping enclosed within white envelopes bearing the Royal Arms. Both memorials were accompanied by a letter from King George V which bore his facsimile signature and read as follows:

Letter of tribute from George V, plaque in its card folder (HU 53986)

 

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