§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether Admiralty Fleet Order No. 1,625 (N.L. 7,083–13/5/1921) is to be understood as meaning that relatives are forbidden to erect private memorials over the graves of naval officers and men who died during the War and who are buried in England; and, if so, whether he will state by what 249W authority this order was made and what power the Admiralty have to interfere with the wishes of the relatives of sailors buried in this country?
§ Mr. AMERYThe Fleet Order referred to by the Noble Lord is an instruction to the Admiralty officers not to permit private memorials to be erected in naval cemeteries or naval reservation plots over which the Admiralty has control. In this matter the Admiralty are carrying out the policy of the Imperial War Graves Commission, which, as the Noble Lord will remember, was accepted by the House in a Debate on the 4th May last year.