RESTORATION WORK
WAR GRAVES OF 1914-18
Rec. 9 a.m
LONDON, August 29,
Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, permanent vice-chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, after inspecting cemeteries and memorials of the last war in Belgium and France, reports that the required restoration is proceeding satisfactorily. Gardeners are working under trying conditions, but all the cemeteries will soon reach the pre-war standard. The. Belgians and French reverently cared for them during the occupation, the headstones weathered satisfactorily, and comparatively few cemeteries and memorials have suffered war damage,
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7
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86RESTORATION WORK Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7
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