FRENCH SOLDIERS & BRITISH GRAVES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2345, 30 December 1914, Page 6

FRENCH SOLDIERS & BRITISH GRAVES

The "Figaro" publishes tho following extract from a letter from one of its employees at the front: — Yesterday, at roll call, our company commander said: "To-day it is not your chief but your comrade who calls you together. Near our trenches four Englishmen who were killed- hero lost month are taking their last rest. AVonld not you like to celebrate All Saints' Day by placing wreaths upon their graves which are familiar to you and which appear neglected? Let us got somo wreaths, and let us take them togethor to the graves of those who Ijave died for tho defence of our soil." Tho mon then dispersed in silonco, and went into the woods, where they found wreaths of ivy and holly, and tho graves, marknd by two plain crosses around which shells were bursting, were covered with these tributes. A section, fully armed, assembled by tho grave's, and a simple but touching ceremony followed. The officer iu command, speaking with deep emotion, paid tribute to our English comrades lyljo had fallen for France, and wo cried "Vivo l'Angleterro." Tho picket then rendered military honours, after \vhich we resumed our places in tho tronchos. Tho dead are Lieutenant IS. Maguiro and Privates H. C. Dover, R. Byrne, and Ford, of tho Royal Dublin. Fusiliers,