BRITISH WAR GRAVES IN BERLIN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 34, 4 November 1929, Page 11

BRITISH WAR GRAVES IN BERLIN

SITE PURCHASED BY COMMISSION (Rec. November 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 2. “The Times’ ” Berlin correspondent states that there are thirty Australian graves and those of three New Zealanders among the 1172 comprising British war graves in a cemetery in South-Western Berlin, where Bishop Fulham, as the local Anglican Bishop, conducted a memorial service. The War Graves Commission has purchased the site in perpetuity, but it does not resemble the other war graves cemeteries, because it is not cleared, and there is no grass. It lies among pineland country, on which turf does not grow. Consequently the Commission has left the trees standing, and has cleared the undergrowth. Thus the dead repose in rows in a natural woodland clearing, interspersed with pine trees. There were delicate reasons why the ceremony should be deferred, but improved Anglo-German relations enabled to-day’s ceremony, which was of the simplest nature. It was attended only by the British colony, including the Ambassador and Embassy staff. The Bishop, in the course of his address, said the dead, if they could send a message to the. living, would use their endeavours for peace. The service was concluded by the singing of the National Anthem.