GRAVES AT BROCKENHURST.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 March 1919, Page 6

GRAVES AT BROCKENHURST.

CARE IN THE FUTURE.

J)UTY OF WOMEN OF ENGLAND.

The graves of New Zealand soldiers buried at Brockenkurst will be the objects of care and attention on the part of the women of that district. The loudness extended by residents in the neighbourhood of Brockenhurst to soldiers in the New Zealand General Hospital there was acknowledged by officer in charge, Lieutenant-Colonel P. C. Fenwick, who addressed to 300 residents a letter of thanks. In replying,, one lady, Mrs C. M. Salwey, paid a tribute to the deeds of New Zealand .soldiers on the battlefields, and adds: —"Please conviey our deep sympathy to the loving mothers whose eyes will not be gladdened by the sight of their beloved sons, and tell them those who have given up their lives for others, and who sleep for awhile in our historic 'acre," shall be remembered and cared for by the women of England."' Mrs Salwey says she will willingly, for any mother whoso

sen rests in the loval churchyard remember him on any special day, and see that his resting place is cured for. She will esteem this a sacred duty, because "each one has died for me." In a letter to a. friend in New Zealand, Colonel Fenwick says:—"l have taken every possible care to see that up to the tiiu> of our departure the graves of the New ZecJanders in the Brockenhurst churchyard are kept in good condition, and our brave dead held in honoured remembrance; but I know it will be a giv-a-t comfort to many relatives to be assured that after we leave the work will be carried on by such loving hearts and ready hands as those of Mrs Salwey."