AUSTRALIAN WAR DEAD
Receivecl Tuesday, 7.5 p.m. BR1SBANE, .June 4. Two AustraJiau 250-toii cargo vessel.s: : will leave Brisbane soon to rccover the! bodios of Australians who were ldlled i 0"..died in the Southwest Pacific area during the war. The l)odies vvill be'exhunied and b rough t to base cemeteries on Lae, Rabaul, Torakina, Townsville, Morotai, Labuan, Singapore and iu the , Phiiippines. ) • One of tlie ships will work from Morotai vvest to Singapore, taking in the Phiiippines, Celebes, JaVa and Borr.eo, and tlie other from Townsville east inciuding Thursday Island, Britisli and Dutch New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomons. ■ | Members of the War Graves Com- : mission will seek out Australian graves and seal the remains in lead caslcets l for removal to the base cemeteries.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1946, Page 2
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