OLD SCENES RE-VISITED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 151, 23 December 1926, Page 11

OLD SCENES RE-VISITED

MUD MEMORIES RECALLED

INSPECTION OF CEMETERIES.

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(Received 23rd December, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd December. Mr. 'Coates and party visited Trois Arbres Cemetery, where 200 Now Zealanders are buried, Cite," Bonjeau, and Armentieres, where 452 are buried. Also "The StTand," "Hyde Park Corner" at Ploegstert. He traversed the battlefields, visited Warncton, and laid a wreath on the Messines Monu. ment. He visited Tynecot, where the names of 1400 missing New Zealand, ors are inscribed on a beautiful screen on the wall, and he also visited Cambrai, St. Quentin, and Masnieres Cemetery, where 20 New Zealanders are buried.

Leaving Gravenstafel memorial in darkness, the motor-cars stuck in the mud and had to be hauled out with horses. . '

■ Mr. Coates and party, visited the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, where the names of 1200 New. Zealanders whose bodies were nevor recovered are • inscribed on a screou on a wall, also 400 names on a wall at Grevillers .Cemetery. The paTty thence followed the route' of the New Zealanders' attack and visited the cemeteries at Vauxhall, Bancourt, Bousoir, and Romeries. Tho Deputy-Mayor of Le Quesnoy received the Prime Minister, and a number of citizens joined in a procession' to the New Zoaland Momorial Garden. When the party reached Carfibrai the Mayor called at their hotel and presented a bouquet to Mrs; Coates.