COMMISSION FOR WAR GRAVES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 8

COMMISSION FOR WAR GRAVES

“Memorials Nearly Completed” (NJS. Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, November 11. Increased interest in the work of the Imperial War Graves Commission had been noted throughout Australia and New Zealand since the completion of construction work in the war cemeteries of the commission’s Anzac agency, the commission's annual report said today. The renewed interest had been shown by the number of visits of relatives of the dead, and by the increased number of ceremonies and services held_x>n Anzac and Remembrance Days. The report said that the recording of the names of 579,331 officers and men of the Commonwealth ' killed during World War II and the construction of memorials to their memory had now largely been completed. In all, one and three-quarter million dead of the two World Wars had been individually commemorated. , The commission is to seek an alteration of its name, according to an announcement today, ft will apply through Royal charter to alter its title to “the Commonwealth. War Graves Commission.”