BATTLE MEMORIALS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 7 November 1919, Page 5

BATTLE MEMORIALS

MANY CLAIMS RECEIVED BY

COMMITTEE

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT LONDON, Nov. 4.

It was announced in the House of Commons that the Battle Expliots Memorial Committee has received 177 claims to erect memorials by individual units.

All. the Australian and New Zealand claims to date have been approved. Belgium has agreed to reserve sites, including Passchendaele, St. Julien, Gravenstafel, Zonnebeke, Hooge, Polygon Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Hill 63, Neuve Egnse, Ypres, Messines, Zillebeke, Wytchaete, St. Eloi, Hill 60, and Kemmel.

The committee states that negotiations are proceeding for French sites, including Pozieres, Vimy, Monchy, Le Prau^ Bourlon Wood and Villers Bretonneux.

Arrangements for Gallipoli and Palestine, are under discussion. Where sites are not given the committee undertakes to acquire land if the units bear the cost of purchase. The question of th<s upkeep of the memorials has not yet been decided.