FRENCH BATTLEFIELDS
VISIT OF AUSTRALIANS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, Gth April. The Mayor of Villers Brotonneux, in welcoming the Australian representatives visiting the cemetery said: “Your children lie buried in ground hallowed by their gallantry. We revere their memory equally with our own dead.” Air Ferguson’, one of the visiting Australians, said lie was amazed to see h6w rebuilding had changed the entire contour of the country from what it was when he fought within half a mile.
The Australians visited various cemeteries and memorials on the battlefield.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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