EMPIRES MILLION DEAD.

Shannon News, 29 March 1927, Page 3

EMPIRES MILLION DEAD.

WAR GRAVES ENCIRCLE THE EARTH. LONDON, March 24. How the graves of 1,075,038 Empir 'lead form a chain around the woild i°raphically described in the seventh 'eport of the Imperial War GraveGommission. There are nearly three thousand war cemeteries between the English Channel and the Yosges mountains. In addition there are fifteen hundred French and Belgium cemeteries where Britons and Dominion soldiers ' arc buried. In Switzerland, British prisoners of war who died ha\e been gathered together in every cemetery. There are ninety cemeteries in Italy, and thence the chain stretches to Macedonia, the Balkans. Greek islands | (where there aie twenty-five cemeter-I :V«), to Gallipoli. . . Here there are thirty-one, six in ■Telles, and twenty-three in a chai.-i from Suvla Bay to Anzac Beach. The i'orlv-six graves in Palestine include f.ne'on the Mount of Olives. Branchinw south and east there are thirty-five in'""Egvi)t, where there are hundreds of Australians, forty in East Africa, aid tAventv-nine in Irak. Thence the chain extends to India, Ohiun, Australia, and New Zcalana, b«ck to the United Kingdom, where there are 77,000 graves in 7500 churchwards and cemeteries. " Moreover, there are many other , countries off the track followed where i Britons and dominion men are buried. I It is sad to remember that the corrcI monest headstone is to be Unknown 1 Poldier, bearing the words: 'Known Unto God."