THE GLORIOUS DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 5

THE GLORIOUS DEAD.

AUSTRALIAN CEMETERIES. CARING FOR THE GRAVES. LONDON, August 7. Seven thousand photographs of graves of Australian soldiers buried in France and Belgium have been sent to relatives. Eleven photographers will be occupied for another year taking photographs of the remaining fifty thousand graves. The formation of four main cemeteries is practically finished. They are Adelaide Cemetery, near Villers Bretonneux; Crucifix Corner Cemetery; Heath Cemetery, on the AniiensSt. Quentin Road; and a National Memorial Cemetery on the Corbic-Villers Bretonneux Road. In the latter cemetery two-thirds of the graves are those of Australians. British, Canadian, French, and American soldiers are also buried there. , None of the four main cemeteries are wholly Australian, but a number of small Australian cemeteries will be made permanent, notably at Mont St. Quentin. The Australians, unlike the other armies, are erecting a cross for every man lost, whether the body wr.s found or is missing. Crosses are being erected in the Gallipoli cemeteries for the men who died on the troopships going to the Peninsula. Fifty Australian ex-soldiers have been permanently appointed caretakers of the Australian cemeteries, which German prisoners and men of the British Labour Corps are now fencing and paving. Two officers will be permanently stationed at St. Omer and Amiens to inspect the Australian cemeteries, and to make any representations to the Imperial War Graves Commission. —(A and N.Z.)