BURIAL OF THE BRAVE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 82, 5 August 1915, Page 6

BURIAL OF THE BRAVE.

Chaplain Major Grant, in the course of a vivid and interesting letter,- tells of the last sad work performed for those who have fallen on Gallipoli’s slopes. “In far-off graves they lie. in many seas and lands; in the still'depths of the seven 'seas, beneath thefretting and tumult'of the waves; in all the lands, east, west, north and south; the men who gave life itself for Empire and for truth. A rude cross of the boards of a packing case, hurriedly inscribed with pencil, a name hastily scratched on a stone while the bullets whistle round the comrade’s head who performs this last office of love, is often all that marks, their last resting place. Already, after a month, many of these are undecipherable. Parents and friends -will have to content themselves that somewhere in this land that nestles in the sea, the ha ltd A of faithful comrades have laid their dead ones reverently, if hurriedly, to marred and broken bodies tenderly in mother' earth, ‘earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, until the day dawns, and the shadows flee away. ’ They lie in ones, and twos, and threes. Sometimes- in one groat trench the dust of ffiend and foe- is mingled together. Christian burial was given to 60 or 70 Australian and N#w Zealand soldiers, who had taken part in that engagement which/will yet-cause all the world to wonder. iVfbst of them were identi.liod by their discs or papers.”