Japan brings back her dead from China. White-shrouded urns containing the ashes of 1279 men who died in the China campaign being carried ashore by comrades, at Shibaura, Japan. The urns were sent on by train later to the towns whence the soldiers came.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 8
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44Japan brings back her dead from China. White-shrouded urns containing the ashes of 1279 men who died in the China campaign being carried ashore by comrades, at Shibaura, Japan. The urns were sent on by train later to the towns whence the soldiers came. Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 8
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