The Care Of The Dead
Anonymous
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THE CARE OF THE DEAD
THE CARE OF THE DEAD
London : Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd. 1916....
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In a graveyard west of Vimy there are buried 1,320 French soldiers and more than 600 English. The earth is bare on most of the English graves; the French ones are older, but all are cared for alike by the Englishman now in charge of the place. "We leave you our trenches and our dead," a French officer said to an English one when our army took over this part of the line, and both parts of the trust are discharged with a will. What this means for the French, one feels when one sees the visits of F
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In the autumn of 1914, the necessity for a continued organization to undertake the supervision of graves was recognised, both from the point of view of national feeling, and to discourage the disconnected and spasmodic efforts of private individuals, which were threatening to create friction and confusion. The services of Mr. Fabian Waro, who, while employed under the British Red Cross with French troops, had already interested himself in the subject, were obtained by the Army, and, later, this
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