MISSING ANZACS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17317, 1 December 1921, Page 5

MISSING ANZACS.

TOXm THOUSAND STILL ON OALLIPOLI. ' LONDON, November 21. A joint statement has been sent to the special representative of the Sydney "Sua" by Captain Leonard Martin, a civil engineer, of Rochester, •Victoria, and Staff-Sergeant Frederic Bodfearn, of Hobart, who recently arrived from Oallipoli, to appeal for a renewed effort to locate missing Anzacs on Gnllipoli. They state that 4000 Australians hate been identified, and 4000 still are missing. They are convinced that many can be found if the search bo continued. For example, Lieutenant Robert Wallace, formerly of Sale, Victoria. since returned, identified about w at Lone Pine and Walker's Ridge, in August, with the assistance of a fear Greeks. Yet exhumations) have nowvirtually ceased. Bones ore visible from the south ol Lone Pino along the ridjp to Chunuk Bair, and also in the trenches after every fall of rain. Captain Martin and Sergeant Bedfearn saw a complete skeleton in a ravine east of Nek Cemetery. Scattered remains are risible m far as Mortar Ridge, which io opposite ?uinn's Poet. They included those of rivate W. Clark, of the Eleventh Battalion, which were found on August 3rd, and were still untmried on Aueust 20th, when they left; and though their official records show that about 24 Australians are buried in Shrapnel Terrace, only 10 have been exhumed. They saw bones ploughed out in the Suvla Bay area, and cast alongside the fields. Indeed, bones are visible in most parts of the fighting area. There is no doubt that some of thee* are Turkish, but many of those examined showed Australian and British buttons and equipment. The whole area, they saj, could be cleared up in from 12 to 18 months, given, favourable weather./ At present there are seven Australians and two New Zealandcrs on Galiipoli, and a> few Englishmen, but mostly Greeks are, employed. ,