“IN MEMORY”
GALLIPOLI’S GRAVES
COMMISSION’S REPORT. TRIBUTE TO A HORSE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT, Received Dec 3, 11.10 a.m LONDON, Dec. 2. “In memory of Bill, 6th Light Horse, 1914-24, aged 21. One of the best.” This is the epitaph engraved on the headstone surmounting a lonely grave under the shadow of Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli. Bill was a horse which left Australia with the original Light Horse, and after the armistice was shipped to the Peninsula. He became the special property of Colonel Hughes and his Australian associates on the staff of the War Graves Commission. Bill faithfully saw the job through to the end and then died.* Colonel Hughes, who has arrived in London, , states that the graves work on Gallipoli is practically completed, and only a few headstones have to he erected. The whi lc forty-four cemeteries are in splendid condition.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 December 1924, Page 5
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