MR COATES ABROAD
BATTLEFIELDS EE VISITED. TOUR OF WAR CEMETERIES. (Pre» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, December 18. (Received Dec. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Coates and party, under the guidance of General Sir Fabian Ware (vicechairman of the War Graves Commission) have begun a tour of the cemeteries. They first motored to the Etaples Cemetery, and sought out all the New Zealand graves, and then visited the Terlinchuu cemetery. The party stopped at the little village of Setques, where Mr Coates once stayed, and took coffee with an old lady who well remembered the names of the New Zealand officers. The party spent the night at Saint Omer. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 11
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