WAR BATTLEFIELDS.
■ BODIES STILL BEING FOUND. f _____ j 862 BURIED LAST YEAR J ___ ' (British Official Wireless). Received Friday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, March 17. Sir Fabian Ware, in an introduction to the 18th annual report of . the Imperial War Graves Commission, states that since the systematic work of clearing the graves . from the Great War’s battlefields oeased over 40,000 bodies have been found. All those have been reburied in individual graves, though the proportion of identifications is about 10 per cent. The discovery of British bodies by inhabitants of former battlefields continues. A total of 768 British bodies were found in France and 94 in Belgium during 1937. The majority of those found in France were in the Somme area. French ’ official search parties found and re-buried in the Pasde Calais Department alone 231 French and 483 German soldiers’ bodies in the same period.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1938, Page 8
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