“FOR EVER ENGLAND”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 9

“FOR EVER ENGLAND”

BRITISH SOLDIERS BURIED AMID GERMAN PINES MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD Times Cable. LONDON, Saturday. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” states that there are the graves of 30 Australian and three New Zealand soldiers among the 1,172 comprising the British war graves in the cemetery at South-western Berlin, where tho Bishop of Fulham, the Rt. Rev. B. S. Batty, who is in charge of the chaplaincies in Central Europe, as the local Anglican Bishop, conducted a memorial service. The War Graves Commission purchased the site in perpetuity, but it does not resemble t e other war graves cemeteries, because it is not cleared, and there is no grass. It lies among pineland country, on which turf does not grow. Consequently the commission has left the trees standing, and has cleared the undergrowth. Thus the dead repose in rows in a natural woodland clearing, interspersed among pine trees. There were delicate reasons why the ceremony should be deferred, but the improved relations between Britain and Germany enabled today’s ceremony to be held. It was of the simplest description, and was attended only by the members of the British colony, including the ambassador, Sir Horace Rumbold, and the Embassy staff. The bishop, in the course of his address, said the dead, if they could send a message to the living, would use their endeavours for peace. The service ended with the singing of the National Anthem.