PACIFIC WAR GRAVES
IMPERIAL COMMISSION’S WORK
THREE MAIN CEMETERIES ESTABLISHED
Special Correspondent
Rec. 10.30 p.m. LONDON, June 11. The Imperial War Graves Commission announces that the task of marking the graves of those members of the British and Commonwealth forces who fell in the remote battlefields of the Pacific area is proceeding more rapidly than the great obstacles imposed by distance and Nature entitled them to hopee. The graVes in all the permanent cemeteries are now temporarily marked, and arrangements have been made for the supply of permanent headstones, which will be made in Australia. The three main cemeteries are at Bitta Paka, 32 miles from Rabaul, on the foreshore of Ambonia Bay, and at Makassar. There are 2800 graves at Bitta Paka, 2000 at Amboina and 600 at Makassar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5
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