TOLL OF THE GREAT WAR
BODIES-STILL BEING FOUND. By Trisgsph-Press Assn. —Ctjyrlgbt. Received Dec. 14, 9.20 p.m. London, Dec. 14. Up id the present 543,598 British war graves have been registered in France and Belgium. Six hundred and twenty o«t of nine hundred and fifty war cemeteries have been completed, in addition to 1500 churchyards, where small groups of British dead lie. Bodies of British soldiers are still being recovered at the rate of thirty weekly, mainly by farmers and builders In the devastated areas. It is still possible to identify these in most eases and they arc re buried immediately, with »>i’itary honours.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1926, Page 7
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