WAR GRAVES.
DECISIONS OF COMMISSION. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 9tli, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 8. At a meeting of tho Imperial War Graves Commission, at which Mr Walter Long presided, all the British and oversea representatives were present. The chairman stated that all the oversea Governments had unreservedly agreed to bear their share of whatever expense was involved in worthily honouring the memory of the dead. Tho Commission, therefore, was free to discharge its task in an ungrudging, unniggardly spirit. The Commission adopted a recommendation tiiat the most suitable method of honouring those whose graves were not found, or those graves not identified, would be to place a tablet, appropriately inscribed, in a cemetery near the spot where the men were believed to hare been killed. It is estimated that arf; least one thousand cemeteries are involved in the scheme. The Commission decided to aslc tho Indian Government to formulate proposals for the establishment of an agency in India for the care of British war graves there.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 7
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174WAR GRAVES. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 7
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