SEEKING SON’S GRAVE.
POOR WOMAN’S QUEST. WAR ZONE SEARCHERS. London, Nov. 28.' Major G. L. Phillips, now superintendent of the Somme graves area, declares that there is a great improvement in the appearance of the Australian cemeteries in all the five areas in France and Belgium. The Australian cemeteries in France are the ipost imposing. Major Phillips has witnessed many pathetic sights. Recently a Queenslander arrhed hi an endeavour to find the grave of his missing son. He had saved every penny possible for the past five years to enable him to visit the spot where his son had fallen. After a week in France he had just sufficient money to return to his farm. Motoring after dusk one afternoon the Major overtook a septugenarian mother walking along the road to Arras and Baupaume in an endeavour to find her son’s grave at Warlencourt. The Major did not know any particulars, and the woman could not speak a word of French. She had already trudged nearly 30 miles, being unable to afford a conveyance. She explained that she had spent her son’s gratuity to pay for the trip from Melbourne. She was not aware of the facilities offered at Australia House.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 303, 11 December 1922, Page 5
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