THE BATTLEFIELDS
RECOVERY OF AUSTRALIAN BODIES (By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright.) (United Service) ' LONDON, Oct. ‘JO. A reward •"!' two francs, which ah the present lime is worth loss than AM,’will he paid for each Australian soldier’s hodv recovered on the battlefields. This’decision is the result of a meeting of the Anglo-Frenchmixed commission, at- which emphasis was laid upon the necessity for uniformity of tho Allied reward in those areas where fighting had so damaged tho soil that the peasants will not return to live thereon. Consequently there is no chance of recovering bodies unless special investigations are undertaken.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 28 October 1921, Page 7
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