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Robert G.Wright. made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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From: Robert G.Wright.
18 June 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
As a result of no disclosure of substance being supplied on this
case by the DCMS a letter was sent to the Chairman of the Board at
the Imperial War Museum (IWM).This correspondence was dated 29 May
2009. A positive identification of the medallion belonging to my
father by a close family member (MGW) at the IWM on 31 July 2008
seems to have been overlooked by the IWM and the DCMS. A failure to
address constructive and substantial evidence supporting our claims
supplied in a REPLY document (January 2008) is also puzzling. The
IWM’ s own photographic evidence in this document undermines their
case. The REVIEW (November 2007) of our case requested specifically
by the Board Chairman and compiled by two IWM Trustees (MI/FR) has
serious flaws, due to the omission of evidence involving the then
Director General ,Sir Robert Crawford. Furthermore, F o I
oversights by the Museum, particularly with regard to restorative
work on the medallion and noted by my brother (MGW) in late July
2008 are unexplained. These facts were documented in my letter to
Sir Peter Squire,IWM Board Chairman. A reply from the IWM Board
Chairman of 3 June 2009 stated that the contents of my letter had
been noted. Could the DCMS under the Act please give disclosure
with regard to any correspondence from the IWM or the Board
Chairman on this case that they have received within the last 40
days.
Yours faithfully,
Robert G.Wright.
From: LEWRY SHARON
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
18 June 2009
Dear Mr Wright,
FOI CASE: 119682
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Requestabout the Luisitania
medallion, which was received on 18 June 2009.
You wrote:-"As a result of no disclosure of substance beingsupplied on
this case by the DCMS a letter was sent to the Chairman of the Board at
the Imperial War Museum (IWM).This correspondence was dated 29 May 2009.
A positive identification of the medallionbelonging to my father by a
close family member (MGW) at the IWM on 31 July 2008 seems to have been
overlooked by the IWM and the DCMS. A failure to address constructive and
substantial evidence supporting our claims supplied in a REPLY document
(January 2008) is also puzzling. The IWM' s own photographic evidence in
this document undermines their case. The REVIEW (November 2007) of ourcase
requested specifically by the Board Chairman and compiled by two IWM
Trustees (MI/FR) has serious flaws, due to the omission of evidence
involving the then Director General ,Sir Robert Crawford. Furthermore, F o
I oversights by the Museum, particularly with regard to restorative work
on the medallion and noted by my brother
(MGW) in late July 2008 are unexplained. These facts were documented in my
letter to Sir Peter Squire,IWM Board Chairman. A reply from the IWM Board
Chairman of 3 June 2009 stated that the contents of my letter had been
noted. Could the DCMS under the Act please give disclosure with regard to
any correspondence from the IWM or the Board Chairman on this case that
they have receivedwithin the last 40 days."
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