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SOLDIERS GRAVES.
HOW THEY ARE KNOWN FOR
ALL TIME
Dauth levels all, we are told, and that fixis is indeed the truth has been proved | in hundreds of instanges in this war of the worlds. Privale and officer, friend erstwhile foe-all lie side by side in the sleep that knows no Bankening. Major Willie Redmond, king of good fellows, les miles away from the land he loved so well, but his grave will never be for gotten, and ever, will his glory fade Captain Selous, that grand old man of the African wilds, he, too, rests with the ocean swelling between his body and the friends who even now think of him with a dimming of the eyes.
But when the Fium has been thou to his kuces, then will be the opportunity of the faber or the mother to visit the grave
THE ARMY OF ANGELS
The British are practically worship. ped throughout the whole of Macedonia." Thus anys M. Ropoules, formerly Minister of Finance at Athens, and now in the qüurse of an article in the Balkan
the first place, according to M. Repout Tummy is a Sir Galahad. At Ekatering the girls inherently tease and jost with it soldiers. But, while appreciating D these intentions, they respond just as innocently, never for moment forgetting good manners, k
What, nsks M. Repoules, is the poster behind the goodness of character? And how is it gained? By nature? No By bearing, education, and will. Their intentions are always straight, their thoughts always innocout, and they never must ill-educated Englishman, even when aisuse their power. Not even the intoxicated, molests any one, huris an animal, touches a fruit tree, or displays
in the British character a race of fe vicious tendency. Heredity has not brutality or barbarism
No wonder Johnny," as the Greek of the one they loved so well in this life.soldiers call the Englishman, is beloved-" They will find it without difficulty, for, in But what of his military character France a very careful record is kept day confess, says the writer, what I no by day of the last resting places of those longer wonder as much as I did at the who have made the supreme sacrifice,
work of Kitchener." The whole national The graves may be in the corner of an spirit of the British, says M. Repoules, orchard or a field, just a little plot of is co-operative. Thus great organiser, had ground fenced off from the pasture or the gly to lay the basis of organisation, and plough. But resurd is kept in the offies the people did the rest, just as informed chaos answered the call of Gud, and the near by, mud a duplicate is in every case
fair, worlds, eang into being. A great sent home to London,
prople
It is so with the French graves, and, to the everlasting honour of all concern? ed, it is so when a Gerama, wounded into death, dies in hospital and is buried close by te is not flung into an unmarked pit, he is buried just as reverently, as though he were a friend, his grave is well looked after, and his name appears on the -prom-at-the head-of-the little grassy, wound.
To
if
i..
The whole Army in Macedonin, must. now he blushing furiously.
the kindness to auimmis." traits is Fillustrated by the story of a British officer, who, seeing a miserable horse ill-treated, shot the poor least, and paid 200 druch- nins as the price of his act of mercy. Then we are told of two British doclors who, finding a poor woman in need of suitable surgical Help, and having 97 instruments with them, telephoned to There is little need to give more than Salonika, The had surgeon himself one or two instances in which this has answered the call by arroplane, and the been done. Let me just mention one or wann's life was saved--" a poor woman two. Take us an instane, a little church-hot of his own race, and at such a time yard on the top of a within sight of as this!! the Anore, and Where can be, seen the drooping figure of the Madonna looking down on the market place of Albert, In this little graveyard are 10ws after rows of the gallant Franchmen who laid down their lives for their country in 1914 and 1913 Only a few yards away are the graves of two Gemu, on--Franz Las sing, the other unknown, They evidently died somewhere near by, one was den tified by his papers in his body, the other apparently had nothing on him to show who he wa
But 2 day they are sleeping their fast sleep beneath turf, as carerully tended as though they had died for France instead of fighting against her
A tree droops over their graves, and a single strand wire fence protects each from being trampled upon, The turf is,. ar was, when I saw it closely cropped, and a little branch of immorteller was Ising
there
There is another graveyard, made in a field, not sq very far from Albert. Here two Germans also lie a few yards away is the grave of a coloucl in the British army, and, almost by his side, is the grave of án Ordinance licer who was caught by a shell while he was making a rash for his dug-out during a bombardiment.
In one corner is a small wooden shed, inside is an ordinary ledger, and in this the name of every utuver and atau buried in the graveyard, this regimental num. bers, and the number of their grave, I know this is so, for called there, looking for the grave of a pal who went West in the first of the great pushes, that on the Somme last year.
|
PRIVATE SMITH OF 'ACKNEY.
Pia daḥn an' aht, yer siy, well let it he got it in the neck outside o' Wypers,
that's the difference "tween ver an' me; seen the show, yer only-seen-the pipers,
I don't know oo yer ate nor 1 dakit enre, Fer may be badged, a cock munition
worker.
Bet from yer ugly mug an flastered air I reckon yer looks like a blinkin' shicker.
I can't do much wivout one and an' eye Lettin' alone the leg what got the 'it, But, strewthi! I wouldn't swop. why yeri
cos, why?
Breas, my son, I doŋe my bloomin' bit.
when the boys comes one what's done. the job
An' put the Kaiser in 'is proper plice, I don't suppose they'll feel a hextra throb Ueart beat when they sees yer bimmin' sfice.
An' when we gathers raound to talk aho" scrap
What time a mass once more may stand a
drink
he or right, an' yer may roll up,
praps
They arst, yer what's ver pison. I don't
think.
You'll ave to pay yerself for yer own
bouze
and
Same as yer as to now, and p'raps yer'll It's done so pleasant listenin' ter their
bus
On blokes what's pulled the strings ter
slay be'ind:
Take another graveyard fishly made by the side of a rail head. Here are all kinds and conditions of men, but between. Yer sec the graves of our gallant Empire Tom- mits are the graves of two Germans, The are being carefully looked after and, they had wives and children, these wil one day learn where they are resting O & slope near Avelay Wood here is just little square piece of ground, cut out of the field. An Artillery major, a company sergeant-major, and fifteen men of other ranks are hers. And it is so on through Attendia' or the wounded under fire. and through the fronts of all the Allies. 17
mustn't grouse, wot's left's or right, It's bloomin' luck for me I wasn't ended. Where I got this, lot's better chaps nor me
as so there wasn't pieces to be mended. This world aint or the show, our chaplain
said
Yer done yer dooty right, there's nuthin' ...figher,.....
knows, Ve does: E: copt it thru the
ead.
ROYAL Sometimes there has been a handsome cross So when the bugle blows the last fall an
THE
PACKET
STEAM
made in the regimehta), workshops, some Fer Gawd's mspection up abore the times it is a roughly fashioned one. But clouds,
the sentiment is all the same. The dade my mates, the shorkin' full o' sig, can be located after the war, and who Will dress our ranks anobble up in knows! it may be some relief to those who crowls
have been left behind to see where the
CO. husband, the brother, or the son, was re. We shan't expect ser toff is in ther stalls, rorently committed to Mother Earth by Saint George eave the tip from the bis comrades and his Padre
Almighty
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'ulis " Graves, too, have be discovered alps For men what fought an bled an' died by chance by those arho have herne for Blighty. chum or a relative has stopped it near S
(S. in Ex.). where they have been bgdling or working themselves. Take as an instance the dis covery of his son's grave by another information that the dead man had been friend of mine little rough cross and affixed to it the tub of London tailor buried by two brother officers in the corner were all that the father had to guide him, of an orchard ear
crpsa
It was enough krew him well, I once Happily, that was sufficient. The spot played a gameoftraight poker with was located by means of the map, him for a pump that belonged to no one, but which we both want bent him, and I took the pump Bas a sport and
Inat
Tracing where a chum had been buried, though, is not always an rasy task during an advance. The burial may have been a hurried one, made under shell fire, and the place can only be located by a reference to a map. There was one particular instance, of this that may be worth telling
was made behind the lines, a small coil of wire and four short posts carried up, and after three attempts (the first two failed owing to the shelling being too beary), the corner of the orchard was made secure from intrusion by any wan dering cattle, the fence erected, and tho new cross fixed ju 5)k the old
axed a place of
There was also something in connection with this too, that I might mention. The ofter who was making the attempt to get the grave had told his batman (servant) that he was starting at a certain hour in An officer learnt that a friend of his the very early morning, and that he would bad been killed and buried, and he wished like a mug of hot tea before he got away- to send the location of the exact spot home The tea was ready and so was the bat to the parents of the dead man. The death man. Hulle," said the officer, "Where of the officer was recorded, but not the do you think you're going? Well, exact place of the grave. A careful was the batman's reply," you're search, made when other duties would up by yourself air. Who's going to look allow, led to nothing. A letter home to a after von if you get hitt mutual friend, however, secured the And the pair wert up and did the job
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