Gallipoli Gamataries

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 22 August 1923, Page 5

Gallipoli Gamataries

SIR JAMES ALLEN'S VISIT, “A COMMANDING OUTLOOK.’ 9 Press Association —Copyright. Australian ainj N.Z- Cable Association. London, AujjAst 20. Sir James Allen has returned from Constantinople and Gallipoli. He states the Gallipoli cemeteries are nearing completion and they arq nows awaiting the tablets giving the regimental particulars far the headstones, live hundred of which are on tho way from England. The names of tho missing and of those buried at sea will be recorded, together with Australians, at the memorials on. Lone Pino Hill, Chunuk Bair, Cape Holies, Twelve Tree Copse and the cemetery where the Krithis fighters fell. Sir James Allen says : “I was very pleased with the cemeteries, both afc regards the site and the progress. Nearly all have a commanding outlook. They were designed by Sir John Barnett and should give satisfaction to the people of New Zealand.” Tb© foundations have been laid for the New Zealand memorial at Chunuk Bair and the whole will be completed within ten weeks. On a beautiful site overlooking thq Aegean and the Dardanelles, it will be a dignified monument, worthy of tho men who fell on Gallipoli. The general memorial at Helles will bear the names of the missing other than New Zealanders. It is impossible to select a finer site. The memorial stands on a promontory, from which! can be seen Imbrosr, tho Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles, Mr Mulville, a member of the firm of contractors, is a Now Zealander. S£r James Allen met many Australasians, including Colonel Hughes (deputydirector of works on Gallipoli), and Mr Jordan (vice-Consul at Constantinople), both of whom are Australians, and Captain Harper, of tho cruiser Resolution, who is a New Zealander.