WAR CEMETERIES.
Treatment Of British Graves On Continent. CASES OF DEVOTED CARE. RUGBY, April 9. The Imperial War Graves Commission was still without definite information a? to the condition of the great majority of British war cemeteries in Franec, t'ae Financial Secretary to the War Office, Mr. R. Law, answering a question in tlie House of Commons. In a few cases the commission had learned of the devoted care given to graven by the local population, and in no case had it heard of wanton damage or disre*pect. The commission had lately heard that Belgian authorities had carried out reverent and seemly collection and reburial of bodies of British dead of May and June, 1940, and had also assumed • are of British war cemeteries.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 85, 10 April 1941, Page 7
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