AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10852, 18 March 1921, Page 9

AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER

HIS IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT. The Imperial authorities are doing everything possible to establish the identity of soldiers whose bodies have been buried on the battlefields of Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Belgium, Palestine, and elsewhere, including Great Britain. Tire remains are being concentrated in cemeteries set apart for that special purpose, hut there are outstanding instances where identification proofs are lacking. Recently the N.Z.E.F. Graves Committee received a communication from the High Commissioner in London stating that as the result of a special exJiumation of No. 9, row D, plot 4, Strand military cemetery, Ploegsteert Wood, tho body of an unknown soldier, a sergeant, was, removed. The deceased was wearing a one-wound stripe and also a disc, inscribed, “i2th Nelson Regiment.” In the absence of a regimental number, or name, it was impossible to identify the deceased n.c.0., and it was considered probable that the clergyman who officiated at the graveside, or any soldiers who may have been present when the* burial took jilace, and who have since returned to the Dominion, might help the authorities in the matter.