SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 197, 9 May 1918, Page 3

SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN FRANCE

A beautiful side of the "Waacs'" work in , Prance is seen in tho military cemeteries, whore members of tho corps act as gardeners (states the "Australasian"). It is pathetic in tho extreme to sec the girl gardeners, with their barrows, at work beautifying the graves. There are rows and rows of little wooden crosses! many of them represent homes which might have been. Tho plans of tho Imperial War Graves Commission for marking and airing for the graves of British. Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand fighting men are now assuming definite shape. The cost is to be borne by tho Government, and the memorials are to Iμ under the general control of three great Imperial architects-Mr. ,Eesinald Illoiufield, Sir Edwin Lutyens, and Mr. Herbert Baker. The last-named is a wellknown South African architect. Mr. Andrew Fisher represents Australia on the commissiou; the president is the Prince of Wales. It has also been decided that headstones of uniform size, though distinctive in design, shall be erected over the graves of all officers and men in the war cemeteries, and in addition a central memorial will bo put up with some appropriate phrase or text. It was announced that some of the Dominions preferred a liuadstone recalling the Dominion, rather than the regiment to which the individual soldier belonged. Some day hundreds of Australian mothers, wives, and eisters will make a ■ pilgrimage to France to see tho craves i|Of their loved ones.