PACIFIC WAR DEAD
BODIES REMOVED TO NEW CALEDONIA
REGRET EXPRESSED BY COMMANDER
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 13. Regret that on instructions from some source all the remains of New Zealanders who were killed or died in the Pacific campaign were removed to New Caledonia, where there were no active operations, instead of being concentrated in the Central Treasury Group, where the 3rd New Zealand Division fought, was expressed to-day by Mr H. E. Barrowclough, formerly a major-general commanding the force, in an address to the Auckland Travel Club.
He said it seemed incongruous that the remains should be removed to New Caledonia, where the ground had been given by a resident. It would not have been more difficult to have interred the bodies in New Zealand. The bodies of soldiers and airmen, too, had been removed to the new cemetery. New Zealand troops had been buried at Guadalcanar and Green Island, and others had been interred where they fell on Vella Lavella. He believed his views to be shared by New Zealanders who fought in the Pacific.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24901, 14 June 1946, Page 8
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