CEMETERIES IN FRANCE.
BRITISH WEEK-END VISITS. DOMINIONS' PORTION OF EUROPE. ; The facility with which people from i the British lelee can visit the burial I grounds of France was mentioned by J Mr. John Douglas, a Fellow of the , Antiquaries Society, at the Rotary luncheon to-day. Mr. Douglas is a visitor from Scotland and he announced that he had taken a party of 600 of hie fellow countrymen over to France on a week-end visit. The party wae distributed over 130 cemeteries and vigited the graves of their fallen warrior*. They left on Saturday morning and were back ngnin on Monday morning. He had observed the graves of New Zealand soldiers. and he thought it worth while to let his audience know that the melancholy rows of tombstoneß marking the graves looked almost pretty. They were well looked, after and cared for by loving hands. In front of each tombstone was a little garden. Kurope had claimed so much from New Zealand but she in turn could claim a portion of Europe. The portion where her soldiers were buried would always belong to New Zealand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 8
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