173,213 DEAD UNKNOWN
NAMELESS WAR GRAVES. ROLL NEVER TO BE COMPLETE. The bodies of British soldiers killed on battlefields in all parts of the world are still being found, and the lists will probably never be final, states the ninth annual report of the Imperial War Graves Commission. The total number of names registered is 1,081,952. The report states : “Of this number 582,783 have been identified and buried in known graves, while 499,169 are recorded as ‘missing.’ Of this number, however, 173,213 are missing only in a technical sense. They have been found but not identified, and are buried as “Unknown." The names of the missing appear on .memorials, and they include those lying in graves. There are now 689 cemeteries, containing 337,548 graves included under the permanent maintenance scheme. During the year 3361 bodies were recovered from the old battle front, mainly in the course of civil recon-struction-and agriculture, and re-in-terred in 11 British cemeteries.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5426, 20 May 1929, Page 2
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156173,213 DEAD UNKNOWN Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5426, 20 May 1929, Page 2
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