GRAVES AT GALLIPOLI.
REPORT BY COLONEL RHODES. A report regarding the graves «f NoZealand soldiers on the Gallipoli Penisnla and in Egypt lias been received 1> the Minister for Defence from Liei\;n-ant-Colonel Rhodes. s » Writing from Cairo on December 21. Colonel Rhodes states that the graves i>," all those buried in cemeteries it Cairo. Alexandria, and Mudros are *kry c<tn>. fully registered, and can be identified at any time. Some of the iron crosses for the graves are now ready, and will b« erected before long. Colonel Rhodes intended to obtain photographs of the graves, so that the next-of-kin might have a record, and, if they desired, arrange for a stone or other' memorial to be placed on the graves. Referring to the graves on the P«ninsulj. Colonel Rhodes said he had arranged with chaplains to compile a record fft "■'' that could he found, and to rV.'* sketches of their position. Ke *-'."•• tioncd that some of the men hud '•". ;" sandstone memorials on the gr*-.. < ( their comrades, but most of them y." marked enly by oden crosses. "On Hill 80, in the fighting, August," Colonel Rhodes adds, "our rr * were buried in a common trench *■' Turks, and there was no time tpidei • tify them. Before that many fell oi' the hills of Ansae, which we have not yet taken. At Cliunuk Bair we la>t a great number of men who we have every reason to believe are dead, but wc have no actual projf " Commenting on the last paragraph o\" the report, Mr. Allen «aid that recent casualty lists showed th«it "Courts of Tnquiry had been investigating available evidence regarding men %vl;o wre rtported ihsising during tli- campaign and as a result name* of'men believed to '"? dead were now being telegraphed. Mr, Allen added that he believed all who . were prisoners in Turkey had been reported, as information was obtainable through three sources—the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and the United Stat?* representatives.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1916, Page 4
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