UNVEILING OF THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE IN THE NEW ZEALAND WAR CEMETERY AT BOURAIL, NEW CALEDONlA.—Photographs taken during last Sunday’s ceremony. LEFT: Major-General Sir Harold Barrowelough unveiling the Cross of Sacrifice in the Bourail cemetery on a hill overlooking the valley where the 3rd. New Zealand Division’s base was situated during the 1939-45 war. In the background are commemorative plaques inscribed with the names of New Zealanders who gave their lives in the Pacific and who have no known graves. Inset is a photograph of General Barrowclough, who commanded the 3rd. Division. RIGHT: Some of the 125 French schoolchildren who took part in the* service and who placed flowers on all the graves of New Zealand servicemen. The children are seen singing one of the hymns which they had been taught to sing in English.

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27657, 13 May 1955, Page 9

UNVEILING OF THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE IN THE NEW ZEALAND WAR CEMETERY AT BOURAIL, NEW CALEDONlA.—Photographs taken during last Sunday’s ceremony. LEFT: Major-General Sir Harold Barrowelough unveiling the Cross of Sacrifice in the Bourail cemetery on a hill overlooking the valley where the 3rd. New Zealand Division’s base was situated during the 1939-45 war. In the background are commemorative plaques inscribed with the names of New Zealanders who gave their lives in the Pacific and who have no known graves. Inset is a photograph of General Barrowclough, who commanded the 3rd. Division. RIGHT: Some of the 125 French schoolchildren who took part in the* service and who placed flowers on all the graves of New Zealand servicemen. The children are seen singing one of the hymns which they had been taught to sing in English.