CARING FOR WAR GRAVES IN PACIFIC
• ^ (Special Correspondent.)
Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDOK, June 11. ; The Imperial War Graves Commissionannounces that tlie tusk of marking tne • graves of those members of tlie Rritisii ; and Commonwealth forees who fell in remote battlefields of the Pacific ar,ea, ; is proceeding more rapidly than th,e ' great obstacles imposed by distance and uature entitled thern to hope. The graves in all the permanenf cemeteries are now tempor^j'ijy marked and ar- . rangements have been made for a supply of permanent headstones which wi/1 be made in Australia. , Tlie three main cemeteries are at| Pitta Palca^ 22 miles from Rabaul, op the foreslrore pf Apibouia Bay ap,J at AlakassaV. There are 280.0 graves at! Bitta Paka, 2000 at Apibopia' and 600' at Makassar,
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1947, Page 5
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