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STERN 1/8/9
Title
Letter from Sir Graham Greene to Edmund Phipps, 20 Mar 1917, about recognition for the work of William Tritton and Walter Wilson
Date(s)
- 1917 Mar 20 (Creation)
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1p
Scope and content
Letter from [Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty] to Edmund Bampfylde Phipps, General Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, communicating official resistance to making special mention of Maj Walter Gordon Wilson, Director of Engineering, Mechanical Warfare Supply Department, in the House of Commons, but support for the award of financial remuneration to him and Sir William Ashbee Tritton of William Foster and Company Limited, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, on condition of assigning to the Government any claims in connection with their work on the development of the tank. 1p
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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.