BRITISH DEAD IN GREAT WAR
GRAVES COMMISSION’S REPORT (British Official Wireless,) (Rec. January 24, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, January 23. The tenth annual report of the imperial War Graves Commission states that the total number of British dead in the Great War registered by the Commission is now 1,089,919. Of this number, 58u,114 have been identified and buried in known graves, while 504,895 are recorded as missing. But these are not accepted as the final figures. Every week report reveals that dead are still being found iu old battlefields. Sometimes they can be identified, sometimes not. In France and Belgium last year no fewer than 2341 bodies were discovered and removed to Commission cemeteries. During last year over 80,000 British visitors made pilgrimage to the war cemeteries in France and Belgium.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 103, 25 January 1930, Page 16
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