SOLDIERS' GRAVES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1919, Page 3

SOLDIERS' GRAVES.

TRACING THEIR LOCATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A particularly gratifying response lias been made to a recent official appeal to soldiers and others to forward to Base Records, Wellington, particulars of the location of soldiers' graves on Gallipoli. Many photographs and plans have been sent, giving information which, has enabled the exact location of graves to he marked on Ihe official plans with accuracy, although the wooden marl;.' s placed in position at the time of burial have disappeared. Many' relatives of deceased soldiers received photographs of graves from friends of the fallen, and these now constitute valuable evidence of location, especially if the surrounding natural features are shown, enabling the position to be picked up on the pian. Base Records officials are sparing no trouble to follow up clues which will enable graves to be pt-optrly marked. As an example, one friend of a dead soldier wrote, that his old pal whs buried at iherear of a particular trench, whieh he roughly sketched. As corroborative <1»tail, he mentioned that the grave was just at the spot at which the battalion messenger on a particular date entered the trench about the hour of darkness. This'messenger was traced by the de-I Fence authorities, he was shown a "pin-, point" plan of the area, and the relatives of the dead soldier will now have the satisfaction of knowing that the grave of their kinsman can be definitely located. The Rev. Chas. J. Bush-King has rendered good service by submitting a schedule of 51 grave- 0/ men buried by him on the Peninsula, with careful references to the location on the official plan. All the information is being communicated to the officials responsible for locating, marking aid recording the graves, so that memorials of a permanent nature may be provided.