WAR GRAVES
BODIES STILL BEING FOUND ON BATTLEFIELDS
(britise official wireless.)
(Received March 18, 8 p.m.)
RUGBY, March 17,
Sir Fabian Ware, in the introduction of the eighteenth annual report of the Imperial War Graves Commission, states that since the systematic work of clearing the graves from the Great War battlefields stopped, more than .40,000 bodies have been found. All of these had been buried in individual graves, though the proportion of identifications was about 10 per cent. The discovery of British bodies by the inhabitants of f° rm er battlefields continues. During 1937, 768 British bodies were found in France and in Mast at those found in France were in the Somme French official search parties found and reburied in the Pas de Calais department alone 231 French and 483 German soldiers bodies in the same period.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22355, 19 March 1938, Page 9
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