"FOR EVER ENGLAND."
| WORLD-WIDE WAR GRAVES. r CEMETERIES TO BE GARDENS |p;V ,■ h<ssil Beuter. ' LONDON, Feb. 7. I?* ■v > Details of final plans for laying out ';' - 700,000 British war graves throughout the ;,r v'v; world, - including 23,080 at Gallipoli,- axe [ ■ published by the Imperial Graves CoraV ; wiEsion. ■ ■• ■ ".- - .': '■■ ,'..''■'' ft.-." ' .Out of 824,000 men buried in France and Belgium, 130,000 are unidentified, and 14,000 on Gallipoli are -nameless. * .£ : Six thousand bodies discovered *in 3. /, Fiance and Belgium during-the past two years have been re-buried. Bodies are still being found in the Ypres salient,- Vimy ; ; ;t > . Ridge, and on the Somme battlefield. It :. v,~, is expected more will be found when the • v French begin to clear Bourlon and Trones, the high woods which at present are im- •; penetrable owing to the thickness of U :'";../': : undergrowth and the presence. cf un- - exploded shells. \ ''■'-"' ' Every effort is being made to turn • the i cemeteries on the west front into English ; ' •gardens. Nine nurseries are established to provide the trees, shrubs, and flowering '" plants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 9
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