PACIFIC WAR CEMETERY
CROSS OF SACRIFICE TO BE UNVEILED CEREMONY IN NEW CALEDONIA (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 11. The Cross of Sacrifice at the New Zealand Military Cemetery at Bourail, New Caledonia, is to be unveiled on Sunday, May 8, by the Chief Justice of New Zealand (Sir Harold Barrowclough), who was General Officer Commanding the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific, 1942-1945. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr S. W. Smith) today. Bourail Cemetery, 120 miles from Noumea, capital of New Caledonia, has been laid out by the Imperial War Graves Commission, and is the only distinctively New Zealand one of both World Wars. It contains the graves of 235 New Zealand servicemen who lost their lives in the Pacific war. Commemorative panels bear the names of a further 282 New Zealanders, mainly airmen, whose bodies were never recovered. The New Zealand delegation, led by Sir Harold Barrowclough, will comprise Parliamentary and official representatives and representatives of the Returned Services’ Association and the armed services. The French Minister in New Zealand (Mr Noel Henry) will accompany the party, which wifi leave by air on Friday, May 6, returning on Tuesday, May 10.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27583, 14 February 1955, Page 14
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