WAR CEMETERIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18957, 7 March 1924, Page 5

WAR CEMETERIES

Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 6. Rir Fabian Ware, vice-president of |he Imperial War Graves Commission, in a paper on war cemeteries read before the Society of Arts, said: 4< Tne natural desire of the dominions that their own trees should grow near their nwn graves has resulted in charming experiments at Tynecot and Passchendaelc, where eleven thousand dead lie. The central German blockhouse forms the base of the Cross of Sacrifice and the curved wall includes 20.000 names of men who have no known graves.” Mr Ware says he returned full of admiration for the cemeteries on Gallipoli. There are thirty-one cemeteries, some on the ridge whence the Turks never dislodged our troops. A splendid view is obtainable from the Pylon on which are inscribed the names of 3840 Australians and 1007 New Zealanders missing, also 1250 Australians and New Zealanders who died at sea. As ships pass through the Dardanelles they will see on the high ground above Cape Helles a monument as big as the Colossus of Rhodes commemorating other missing and dead, including 200 Australians killed at Helles. This will be completed m the autumn.