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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1940, Page 4

When Mr. J. H. Duncan, of Dunedin, was touring Great Britain last autumn, he paid a visit to the New Zealand soldiers’ cemetery at Brockenhurst, and there saw an elderly woman placing flowers on the New Zealanders’ graves. She had, she said, done this for more than 20 years. On this occasion she had a large number Of flowers, and told Mr. Duncan that a Mr. Thomas Ritchie, of Dunedin, had passed through the cemetery some days previously and he and his party of tourists had subscribed a sum .of money to purchase flowers. It was merely a coincidence that Mr. Duncan should , be visiting the cemetery when this English-woman, Mrs. Annie Dotting, should be carrying out her selfimposed labour of love, and when he returned to Dunedin he told Mr. Rkchie that she had faithfully carried out the arrangement made with the party of New Zealand tourists.