GALLIPOLI GRAVES

Southland Times, Issue 19025, 22 August 1923, Page 5

GALLIPOLI GRAVES

SIR JAMES ALLEN S VISIT HIGHLY SATISFIED WITH WORK (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 20. (Received August 21, 7.50 p.m.). Sir James Allen has returned from Constantinople and Gallipoli. He states that the Gallipoli cemeteries are nearing completion and awaiting tablets, giving regimental particulars for the headstones. Five hundred are on their way from England. The names of those missing and of those buried at sea, will be recorded, together with the Australians at the memorials on Lone Pine Hill, Chanak Bair, Cape Helles, Twelve Tree Copse and the cemetery where the Krithia fighters fell. Sir James Allen says: “I was very pleased with the cemeteries, both as regards sites and progress. Nearly all have a commanding outlook. They were designed by Sir John Barnett, and should give satisfaction to the people of New Zealand.” The foundations have been laid for the New Zealand memorial at Chanak Bair. The whole will be completed within ten weeks, on a beautiful sight overlooking the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. It will be a dignified monument, worthy of the men who fell on Gallipoli. The general memorial at Cape Helles, will bear the names of missing, other than New Zealanders. It was impossible to select a finer site. The memorial stands on a promontory from which can be seen Imbros and the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. Mr Mulville, a member of the firm of contractors, is a New Zealander. Sir James met many Australasians, including Colonel Hughes, deputy-Director of Works, on Gallipoli, and Mr Jordan, Vice-Consul at Constantinople. Both are Australians, and Captain Harper, of the cruiser, Resolution. is a New Zealander.