OUR SOLDIERS' GRAVES
♦ REPORT BY COLONEL RHODES By Telegraph—Frees Association. Auckland, Februa-ry 8. A report regarding the graves of New Zealand soldiers on the Gallipoli Peninsula and in Egypt has been received by the Minister ot Defence from Lieut.Colonel 11-hodes. Writing from. Cairo on December 21, Colonel ithodes states that the graves of all those buried in the cemeteries at Cairo, Alexandria, and Mudros are very carefully registered, and can be identilied at any time. Some of the 'iron crosses for the graves are now -ready, and .will be erected before long. Colonel Rhodes intended to' obtain photographs- of graves so that next-of-kin might have a record, and if they desired arrange for a stone or other memorial to bo placed on the graves. ■ Referring to the graves on the Peninsula, Colonel 'Rhodes said he had arranged with the chaplains to compile 1 a record of all that could be found, and to make sketches of their position. He mentioned that some of the men had placed sandstone memorials on the graves of their comrades, hut most of them were marked) only by wooden crosses ."on Hill 60, in fighting in Aug-' ust." Colonel Rhodes adcls: "Our men were buried in a common trench, with Turks, and there was no time to identify them before that. Many fell on the hills of Anzac; which wo have not yet taken, and at' Chirnuk Bair we lost a great number of men, who we have every reason to believe are dead, but we have no actual proof.", Commenting on the last paragraph of the report, Mr. Allen said that, as recent casualty lists showed, courts of inquiry had been investigating the available evidence regarding the men who were reported missing during the campaign, as a result of which . the names of men believed to be dead were now being telegraphed. Mr. Allen added that lie believed all who were prisoners in Turkey had been reported, as information was obtainable through three sources —the Bed Cross, the Bed' Crescent, and the United States representatives. ■
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 6
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341OUR SOLDIERS' GRAVES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 6
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