MISC WMF43
Reference code
MISC WMF43
Title
Eton War Memorial Fund (1943)
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
On 4 June 1943 Viscount Cranborne (Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil (1893-1972), subsequently 5th Marquess of Salisbury) chaired a meeting at which it was agreed to set up an appeal fund in memory of Etonians killed in WW2. The 1914/18 Fund was taken as a precedent, with 90% of the money going to provide bursaries to enable the sons of Etonians killed or disabled to attend the College and the balance being used for a visible memorial. The Old Etonian Trust acted as trustee.
In 1957, with demand for bursaries from those directly affected by the war tailing off, £25,000 of unutilised capital was transferred to the new War Memorial Bursary Fund (sometimes called Endowment Fund) and the remaining money in the 1914/18 Fund was subsequently added. In 1971, all the money remaining in the 1943 Fund was transferred to the War Memorial Bursary Fund.
Date
1917 - 1976
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- War Memorial Fund (1943): Minute books, MISC WMF43 01, (1943 - 1972)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Cash books, MISC WMF43 02, (1947 - 1971)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Journal, MISC WMF43 03, (1958 - 1973)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Visible Memorial Committee, MISC WMF43 04, (1943 - 1950)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Correspondence of the Visible Memorial Committee, MISC WMF43 05, (1944 - 1948)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Visible Memorial Committee, MISC WMF43 06, (1945 - 1965)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Visible Memorial Committee on the panels of names, MISC WMF43 07, (1947 - 1956)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Visible Memorial Committee on the List of Etonians Who Served, MISC WMF43 08, (1948 - 1953)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Visible Memorial Committee on College Chapel, MISC WMF43 09, (1958 - 1960)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Visible Memorial Committee on the cricket pavilion, MISC WMF43 10, (1965 - 1970)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Honorary Secretary of the Grants Committee, MISC WMF43 11, ([1943 - 1973])
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers of the Chairman of the Grants Committee, MISC WMF43 12, (1945 - 1963)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Correspondence on the establishment of the Fund, MISC WMF43 13, (1943 - 1947)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Registration of the Fund at the War Charities Act, MISC WMF43 14, (1946 - 1947)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers on the funds, MISC WMF43 15, (1917 - 1944)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers on investment strategy of the Visible Memorial Committee, MISC WMF43 16, (1946 - 1969)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): List of large donors to the Fund, MISC WMF43 17, (20th century)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Formation of Endowment Fund, MISC WMF43 18, (1946 - 1965)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Papers on the creation of the War Memorial Bursary Fund, MISC WMF43 19, (1955 - 1970)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Merger of War Memorial Bursary Fund and 1943 Fund, MISC WMF43 20, (1956 - 1976)
- War Memorial Fund (1943): Memorandum on the investment powers, MISC WMF43 21, (1968)