Although many of New Zealand's ga'lant dead sleep their long, last sleep beneath an alien sfcv, thev are not. nor will they over be, forgotten. It to some ccrsolation to tl.e.V parents to know that their last reet-ng P'"^ 6 « r . e carefully marked, and where possible, carefully tended On the bleak hillsides of" shell-torn (ial'ipnli, little wooden crosses are the visible sign that bravo men of the Dominion have given their lives-little crosses which some dav will be replaced wU-h granite and permanent memorials. In hgypt. JUai.a and France the above stvle of monument is being erected by the -New Zealand Governnient-a cross of' Ton. with <t small brass plate at the- head, reenrdu:? the number, rank, and name jf the deceased so'dier.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)
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124Although many of New Zealand's ga'lant dead sleep their long, last sleep beneath an alien sfcv, thev are not. nor will they over be, forgotten. It to some ccrsolation to tl.e.V parents to know that their last reet-ng P'"^6 «r.e carefully marked, and where possible, carefully tended On the bleak hillsides of" shell-torn (ial'ipnli, little wooden crosses are the visible sign that bravo men of the Dominion have given their lives-little crosses which some dav will be replaced wU-h granite and permanent memorials. In hgypt. JUai.a and France the above stvle of monument is being erected by the -New Zealand Governnient-a cross of' Ton. with <t small brass plate at the- head, reenrdu:? the number, rank, and name jf the deceased so'dier. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)
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