SOLDIERS' BODIES.
FORTY THOUSAND REBURIALS. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, March 18. Sir Fabian Ware, in an introduction to the 18th annual report of the Imperial War Graves Commission, states that since the systematic work of clearing the graves from the Great War battlefields ccased, over 40,000 bodies have been found. All these have been buried in individual gravep, though the proportion of identifications is about 10 per cent. The discovery of British bodies by the inhabitants of the former battlefields continues. During 1937-a total of 7CB British bodies were found in France and 94 in Belgium. The majority of those found in France were in the Sonime area. I French official search parties found and leburied in the Pas de Calais department alone the bodies of 231 French and 483 German soldiers in the same period.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9
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136SOLDIERS' BODIES. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9
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