GALLIPOLI GRAVES.
SOT: DESECRATED BY TURKS'. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, June IVJ. Lieutenant Keesing, a Sydney architect, who has returned from Gallipoli, reporting on the graves and battle memorials, strongly denies that the Turks have desecrated Australian graves. On the contrary, the Turks put the beach and Shrapnel Valley cemeteries in order, adding mounds lined with stones to each grave, similar to their own military cemeteries. The Australian Graves Detachment, aided by maps and photographs, were able to locate almost every grave known when the Anzacs evacuated Gallipoli. Though the Turks destroyed the wooden crosses for firewood there were metal crosses and home-carved stones. Moreover their comrades often sank pipes with the names of casualties stamped in the Morse code. This was an adaptation of an old Australian trick used, in working allotments.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1919, Page 5
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133GALLIPOLI GRAVES. Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1919, Page 5
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