§ Sir HILDRED CARLILEasked the Secretary of State for War whether there is any prospect of those who have lost sons in the War being permitted to place such headstones in the graveyards as they may wish upon the graves in which they are primarily concerned; and is he aware that many of those who have lost sons in the War greatly resent any insistence upon a uniform pattern of headstone, more particularly of one described as a hideous early Victorian pattern?
Captain GUESTI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave yesterday to a similar question put by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Finchley. In considering the design of the headstone the Imperial War Graves Commission have been advised by some of the most eminent artists and architects of the day, whose names are a sufficient guarantee that the pattern to be adopted will not be unsightly.