FROM EGYPT.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1925, Page 4

FROM EGYPT.

DOMINION SOLDIERS’ GRAVES VISITED. AUCKLAND. June 2. Among the passengers who arrived in Auckland by the Mocraki were Mr James Penuethorne, until lately locomotive superintendent of the railways of Lower Egypt, and his wife. M.rs Pennethorno is a New Zealander, being a daughter of Mr M. It. Miller, of Napier. During the Great War, Mr Pennethorne periormed services for the military authorities which, although his status was that of a civilian, gained for him the distinction of mention in despatches. His retirement from the Egyptian service, with that of many other Europeans, was practically contemporaneous with the murder oi the Sirdar, Sir Lee Stack. Mrs lVnnethonie, too. i- gratclully remembered by many New Zealanders who served in Egypt and Palestine lor her share in Red Cross work at Ismaiiia. As recently a- March last, only a tew weeks before her departure Irom • Egypt. Mrs Penuethorne paid a visit to the Holy Land, and there she saw the graves of a number of New Zealand soldiers in the cemetery on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. She described them as being must carefully tended by the British authorities, and beautified by cultivated [lowers. The cemetery is in charge of a Sydney man, Mr Ward. Mrs Penuethorne herself planted Hovers on the resting places of some of her fellow countrymen. Further, she took photographs of a number of New Zealander-' graves, having the lilms still in her possession. She will lie glad of an opportunity of supplying copies o! the' photographs to any residents oi the Dominion who know their relatives to have been buried in the cemetery, and who may communicate with her. Among, her experiences in Egypt was a visit to tin' fur-famed tomb of Tut- ■ aiikhamen. At present Mr and Mrs IVnnoihortie ■ are visiting friends in Hamilton, alter I which thev will go on to Rotorua and Hastings. L