EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER,
Eignteen years atter tne iast snot was nrea on tne western jctohl the bodies o£ nearly 900 British soidiers were found last yeaT in the battlefields of France and Belgium. This is rey.ealed in the * 17th annual raport of the Imperial War Graves Commission. , Of the 1,104,890 British soidiers killed, 587,117 haye been idenfeified and bnried in -war cemeteries. A further 180,861 have been found but are unidentified, so there are 336,000 classified as 'missing." There are 560,000 graves in Erance and Belgium alone, Last year 821 bodies were found and reburied in France and 63 in Belgiiim. Identi'fication was possible in only 96 cases.— News Chrpnicle, I,ondon.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 139, 29 June 1937, Page 4
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