STILL BEING FOUND
BODIES ON BATTLEFIELD? f British Official Wireless. ] , RUGBY, March 18. Sir Fabian Ware, in an introduction to the 18th annual report of the Imperial War Graves Commission, states that since the systematic work of clearing the graves from the Great War's battlefields ceased over 40,000 bodies have been found. All these have been reburied in individual graves, though the proportion ot identifications is only about 10 per cent. The discovery of British bodies by inhabitants of former battlefields continues. A total of 768 British bodies were found in France and 94 in Belgium during 1937. The majority of thos. found in France were in the Somme area. French official search parties found and re-buried in the Pasde Calais Department alone 231 French an* 483 German soldiers’ bodies in th“ same period.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 7
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