OUR HONOURED DEAD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 56, 30 November 1918, Page 7

OUR HONOURED DEAD

THE EMPIRE'S WAR CRAVES IMPORTANT DECISIONS 'COUNTER-REVOLUTION BREAKS OUT . . (Uμ. November 2!), 8.30 p.m.) ■ London, November -28. The Press Bureau stales that (.lie Imperial War Graves Commission has decided upon the ■ principle ■of uniform headstones .for marking (he graves of all rniiks, and , in-pointing out lo those who anticipated supplying memorials of 1 heir own choosing, that it is of Iho highest significance—community of sacrifice— that Ilicre should Iμ no differentiation, and that there should be co-operation of action. The Commission recommends ii headstone, 30.inches high by 18 inches wide, hearing the fallen nian's rank, name, regiment, and date of death, the next-of-kin being permitted to add a three-line inscription. Mr. Rudyard Kipling has submitted to the Imperial War Graves Commission a suggestion for .the inscription for Ihe great war stone which will form the central feature in all the cemeteries abroad. He suggested the passage from the Book of Ecclesiasticus/ in Mie Apocrypha: "The.name liveth for evermore" (Chap. 44, verse 11). The Commission approved the recom-nienda.lion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Keu- '■■ • ISOLATED GRAVES QUESTION OF KEBURIAL .• iKec.rNovember ,30, 0.5 a.m.) The Press Bureau reports :— London, November 2S. The War Graves Commission is considering the question of the reburial of • soldiers now -hi isolnted graves'scattered across the battlefields which will shortly be again brought into cultivation.' It has been -decided that it will be necessary to remove them to cemeteries where they ca'i be , reverently cared for. Over 150,000 isolated graves are known to be' in France and Belgium, notably on the Yprcs and Soninie battlefields, where they are thickly strewn over a space of several miles in length and breadth, Any other course would be excessively painful to the relatives and unfair to the landholders. Volunteers from among the comrades of the fallen will carry out the rebiirials under the chaplains. There are overwhelming reasons against the .exhumation of bodies for removal to soldiers' native It would be contrary to the principle of equality of treatment, while few could afford''the expense. The task of emptying four hundred thousand graves would be colossal. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Eeuter.